Have patience! In time, even grass becomes milk.
Charan Singh

The greatest tension in the slingshot shoots the highest rock.
Unknown

It's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Hubert Humphrey

Training teaches people to follow prescriptions. Education teaches people to make choices.
Nido Qubein

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow

Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future.
Melanie Gustafson

I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
Stephen Jay Gould

He who has a why can endure any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
John Hoyer Updike (1932-)

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
H. G. Wells