"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Long is the road from conception to completion." ~ Moliere

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." ~ Mother Teresa

“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.” ~ Brad Meltzer

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope." ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"What makes networking work is that it sets up win-win situations in which all parties involved get to take something home. Networking is a sharing process. Until you understand that, you won't have much of a network." ~ Earl G. Graves

"The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for." ~ Louis L’Amour

"Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!" ~ Tim Ferriss

"When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened." ~ Helen Keller

"The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting." ~ Andy Warhol

“Who’s gonna fill their shoes?

Who’s gonna stand that tall?

Who’s gonna play the Opry

And the Wabash cannonball?

Who’s gonna give their heart and soul

To get to me and you?”

~ George Jones

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people." ~ Mario Quintana

"You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having." ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." ~ William James

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others." ~ Danny Thomas

"The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice." ~ Brian Herbert

"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world." ~ Fred Rogers