Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Mortimer Adler

Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,To the eternal sun, I render backThese atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.

Friedrich von Schiller, Maid of

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Mark Twain

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Stephen King

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

Thomas Carlyle

In a sense, beauty is what one chooses to feel by virtue of what one chooses to imitate and to create.

Robert Pack

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

James Dyson

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

James Baldwin

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

William Shakespeare

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

William Penn

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.

Judy Blume

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

Steve Maraboli