"The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain."

~Madeleine L'Engle

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

~George Bernard Shaw

"It is by character and not by intellect the world is won."

~Evelyn Beatrice Hall

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."

~Unknown

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."

~Theodore Roosevelt

"When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others."

~Solange Knowles

"Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow."

~Margaret Fuller