"A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

~B.F. Skinner

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily."

~Jack Canfield

“... if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”

~Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

~Napoleon Hill

“Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.”

~President Obama in a 2011 radio address

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

~Confucius

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

~Confucius