"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."
Henry David Thoreau

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
Thomas A. Edison

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
Henry Miller