"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a
finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain."

-- Doug Coupland

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

-- Julie Andrews

"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very
good. Understanding is joyous."

-- Carl Sagan

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination;
never limit others because of your own limited imagination."

-- Mae Jemison, astronaut

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to
remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"I've always found that anything worth achieving will always
have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive
and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to
whatever it is that you want to accomplish."

-- Chuck Norris

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world
straight in the eye."

-- Helen Keller

"If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing
more to patient attention than to any other talent."

-- Sir Isaac Newton

"Mishaps are like knives that either serve or cut us as we
grasp them by the blade or handle."

-- James Russell Lowell

"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them
with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of
waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you
will reach your destiny."

-- Carl Schurz