The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

~ Albert Einstein

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

~ William McFee

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

~ Maya Angelou

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Be daring, be different, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers…

~ Cecil Beaton

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

~ Abraham Lincoln 

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

~ Muriel Rukeyser

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.

~ John Barrymore

It is not light that is needed, but fire.

~ Frederick Douglass

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

~ Pablo Picasso 

Men learn to do ill by doing nothing.

~ Cato

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.

~ Helen Keller

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

~ Vaclav Havel

I have confidence in confidence alone. 

~ Oscar Hammerstein II

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

~ Ray Bradbury

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

~ Nelson Mandela

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

~ Ansel Adams

There is no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.

~ Baruch Spinoza