“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.” 
 -Ralph Waldo Emerson


“Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur everyday.”
 -Benjamin Franklin


“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.” 
 -Doug Firebaugh


“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.” 
-Robert H. Schuller

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
-Mark Twain

“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”
-Galileo

"Wine is sunlight held together by water."
-Galileo

"In vino veritas."
-Plato

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
-Jonathan Swift