“The tissue of life to be we weave with colors all our own, And in the field of destiny we reap as we have sown.”

John Greenleaf Whittier

“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”

Mark Twain

“I hold it, that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”

Thomas Jefferson

“There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.”

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”

Samuel Johnson

“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”

Albert Camus

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”

Henry David Thoreau

“The best way out is always through.”

Robert Frost

“We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”

Aristotle

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

Socrates