Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be un... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

"To fill the hour──that is happiness."

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased."

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities."