Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

Pete Rose

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Sir Walter Raleigh

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Tom Schulman, Professor Keating

Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough that we need to know ourselves better that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

Harold Bloom

By taking the time to contemplate where you are and where you want to be, you greatly empower yourself. It's a wonderful opportunity to finally set in motion the changes you want in your life.

Steve Maraboli

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Abraham Lincoln

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

B. R. Ambedkar

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Neil Gaiman

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

Michael Chang

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marcel Marceau