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- The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
- The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
- Dr. Smiley Blanton
- Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
- Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
- Sheila Graham
- Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
- Norman Podhoretz
- Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
- Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
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