"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

-- Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within." -- Earl Nightingale

"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdles." -- George Lucas

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions." -- Alfred Lord Tennyson

“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.”– John Stuart Mill