“The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.” Shimon Peres

“See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer’s need. ” Pedro Calderón de la Barca

“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.” Noam Chomsky

“It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.” Thomas Jefferson

“Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.” F.W. Dupee

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.” ― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.” ― Thomas Jefferson

“One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” ― Paulo Coelho

“Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.” ― Erol Ozan

“Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.” ― Erol Ozan

“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.” ― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ― Anaïs Nin

“Um...Mercer? Haven't seen you in nearly a month. I was expecting something like, 'Oh Cross, love of my heart, fire of my loins, how I've longed--” ― Rachel Hawkins, Spell Bound

“We cannot love a person with an all accepting, transcending and encompassing love without being hurt somewhat, without being disappointed, without being failed of our expectations. We cannot love without

“I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!” ― J.K. Rowling

“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free