All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.

-William Shakespeare

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

-Washington Irving

The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.

-Martin Luther King Jr.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

-Henry Ford

Those who play the game do not see it as clearly as those who watch.

-Chinese Proverb

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

-Leonardo da Vinci

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

- Henry Becque

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

- Plato

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

-Aristotle

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

-Alfred North Whitehead

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

-Lao Tzu

All glory comes from daring to begin.

-Eugene F. Ware

We must either find a way or make one.

-Hannibal

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

- Edward de Bono

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk--and to act.

-Maxwell Maltz

If you are going to be original, you are going to be wrong a lot.

-Anon

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

-Herman Melville

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

-Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

-Napoleon Bonaparte

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may bemerely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

-Albert Einstein

What does not destroy me makes me strong.

-Friedrich Nietzche

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

-Confucius

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

-Erica Jong