“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” -Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)

“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." -Buddha

"Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it." -Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)

"The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings…
As the shadow follows the body,
As we think, so we become."
-Buddha

"Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth."
-Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC), 300 B.C.

"The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson