"Base your understanding of the world on data, rather than journalism."
— Steven Pinker
"Strive to make small changes and learn something new daily, because there is always these experiences you have had to tap into for the future."
— Roy T. Bennett
"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be the kind of person who dares to face life's challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them."
"Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping."
— Augusten Burroughs
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
— Helen Keller
"You don't have to light the whole sky. Sometimes a single match in the dark is enough to prove the night doesn't last forever."
— Lawrence Nault
"Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life."
— Rodolfo Costa
"It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning."
— Gene Roddenberry
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
— John Locke
"Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking."
— Rick Steves
"Be purposeful about putting yourself in a stimulating environment where your creativity can take flight."
— Germany Kent
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
"Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful."
"Don't wait for the right moment to start, start and make each moment right."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi
"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
— Saint Augustine