No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.- Harry Emerson Fosdick
let there be no doubt: as long as you continue to blame others instead of assuming your responsibilities, you will make no meaningful and enduring change for the better. What kind of people are we, if we don’t have the character to own up to our own short-comings and responsibilities? To have and enjoy certain liberties requires us to hold each other and ourselves accountable for our actions.- Gary Ryan Blair
All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.- Cathy Ladman
there are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.- Colin Powell
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our lives are made. Destiny is made known silently.- Agnes de Mille
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.- Alexander Graham Bell
there is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
Action is the antidote to despair.- Joan Baez