"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."
— Dr. Seuss
"I'm young and have many hidden qualities; I'm young and strong and living through a big adventure."
— Anne Frank
"Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice ..."
— Roy T. Bennett
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
— Mark Twain
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
— Helen Keller
"Optimism is the art of seeing the glass as refillable, not just half full or half empty."
— Frank Sonnenberg
"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."
— Henry David Thoreau
"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."
— Maya Angelou
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
— Seneca
"New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it."
— Dorothy Parker
"You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
— A. A. Milne
"If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it."
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
— St. Francis of Assisi
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"We must find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative."
— James Redfield
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses."
— Alphonse Karr