The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Robert M. Pirsig

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

Publilius Syrus

Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

Jack London

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

John Bates Clark

Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it.

Jodi Picoult

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Aldous Huxley

If you don't ask, you don't get.

Mahatma Gandhi

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

Calvin Coolidge

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Baba Dioum

Mentally speaking, it sucks, man. Who wants to prepare their whole life and have it all taken away by some guy who just made a bad pass? But that's the beauty of the sport as well. Anything can happen.

Apolo Anton Ohno

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

John P. Zenger