About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
-Rita Mae Brown

Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture
And save it from the funny tricks of time

I have great faith in fools; self confidence my friends call it.
-Edgar Allen Poe

To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
-Barbara Tuchman

“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of people be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved integrity. Do not lose your knowledge that our proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it's yours"

Having common goals is a binding contract too. It's like riding a train with other passengers. You don't need to be their friends, but you'll get there together.

-Me

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.
-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.
-Spencer W. Kimball

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
-Françoise Sagan

I've spent my entire adult life trying to paint like a child again.
Picasso.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
-Mary Shelley

The first casualty of war is the truth.
John Pilger.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
-Mary Schmich

Democracy is an illusion of choice.
David Icke.

Success has been defined as the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
-David Guy Powers

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
-Audre Lorde

Don't confuse the truth with opinion of the majority.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
-Maya Angelou

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
-Charles F. Brannan