"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills that you should avoid". -- Thomas Jefferson, third U.S. president
"No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy." -- Ayn Rand, writer
"Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought." -- Napolean Hill, author
"Hope is a vigorous principle; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. It makes a seeming impossibility give way." -- Jeremy Collier, critic
"You can't do it unless you can imagine it." -- George Lucas, director
"Difficulties are things that show a man's nature." -- Epictetus, philosopher
"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." -- Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. president