"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present." — Golda Meir

"One fails forward toward success." — Charles Kettering

"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal." — E. Joseph Cossman

"I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage." — Arthur Schopenhauer

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." — Henry Miller

"The end of labor is to gain leisure." — Aristotle

"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." — Ellen Glasgow

"I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented." — R. Buckminster Fuller

"Leap, and the net will appear." — John Burroughs

"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out." — Iris Murdoch