Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. - Works and Days. - Hesiod. View more images...

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. - Benjamin Disraeli. View more images...

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. - Jose Ortega y Gasset. View more images...

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Victor Frankl. View more images...

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. - Les Brown. View more images...

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine. - Jason Mraz. View more images...

Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none had ever happened. - Libbie Fudim. View more images...

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. - James Allen. View more images...

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do. - John C Maxwell. View more images...

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. - Thomas Arnold Bennett. View more images...

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. - Tallulah Bankhead. View more images...

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. - Isaac Disraeli. View more images...

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect. - Charlton Heston. View more images...

An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered. - G K Chesterton. View more images...

The gods only laugh when people ask them for money. - Japanese Proverb. View more images...