“That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.”

— Madonna
 

 
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt
 

 
“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 

 
“If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.”

— Brendan Francis
 

 

“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.”

— Henry Kissinger