With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble.  Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Keshavan Nair

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Sophocles

Chance is always powerful.  Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it there will be a fish.

Ovid

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

Chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what people fear most.

Fyodor Dostoyevski

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

Claude Bernard

Surround yourself with people who respect you and treat you well.

Claudia Black

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Edward Hopper

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Somerset Maugham

We learn something by doing it.  There is no other way.

John Holt, Educator

Live shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

Plato

Lee Iacocca