"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
- Albert Einstein

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
- George Woodberry

"Those that dance best dance with desire."
- Irving Layton

"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
-Henry Ford

"This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything."
-Scott Reed

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
- Ellen Parr

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
- George Bernard Shaw

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
- George Eliot

And Christopher Walken had it right (see How We Work): "The most effective way to do it, is to do it."
- Amelia Earhart

"To change and to change for the better are two different things."
-German proverb