They tell us, Sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be next week? Will it be next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed and a guard stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Sir, we are not weak if we make proper use of those means which the God of nature has placed in our power. - Patrick Henry
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
When I look at my own life I know that it is possible for anyone to change with the help of the ancient ways. - Louis Two Ravens Irwin, The Life and Teachings of a Spiritual Warrior
What the mind of man, or woman, can concieve and believe, it can acheive. There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge. - Neapoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich
I wept that I had no shoes -- until I saw a man that had no feet (another pearl of wisdom by that most published of authors - Anonymous)
Do every act of your life as if it were your last - Marcus Aurelius
When one door closes another opens ... there may, however, be a long hallway in between.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education - Mark Twain
Nolite te bastardes carborundum - latin for Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down
In a world of endless imagination, anywhere the mind can go, we will follow - Levi Strauss commercial, 1985
Do Not Go Gentle Into the Night --
--Blow wind, blow -- at least I'll die with the yoke off my back .. Shakespeare(?)
It made a whole big enough to throw a bobcat through - an old Cherokee saying (well a saying by an old Cherokee woman in Oklahoma)
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers
The wind just turned on -- from a Louis L'Amour western
Most people think time is the same for everybody. Einstein thought different
I will study and get ready, and someday my chance will come. - Abraham Lincoln
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James
A little common sense will take us a long ways.
-Too bad we don't teach it in school, or issue pre-paid common sense cards.
Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows. - This little "eye-opener" is from Helen Kellar
... And the price of a wandering life is hunger, lonliness and danger, the blistering thirst of deserts and the icy crash of waves, the tearing winds and driving sleet far from hearthside and the warm arms of loved ones (and yet for some, dreams are never enough)- Sitka, Louis L'Amour
A riot - from the bottom - is a cry from the unheard. - Martin Luther King
The greatest lessons you learn in life, won't be found in a book - Linnea
It was one of those 'holy shit' moments. - David ten Have, CEO of Ponoko, in Wellington New Zealand