Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Before he died, Rabbi Zusya said: "In the world to come they will not ask me, 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya?'"
-Rabbi Zusya of Hanipoli
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
-Voltaire
Action is the antidote to despair.
-Joan Baez
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it
-Phyllis Bottome
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men
-Nicolas Chamfort
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-James Baldwin
It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-Abraham Lincoln
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
-Scott Adams
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
-Grace Murray Hopper