"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
- Nelson Mandela

"There is but one force, stronger than all the armies of the world... and that is an idea whose time has come. " Victor Hugo 

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eye off your goal." - Henry Ford

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
Ray Bradbury (1920); US writer.

'Be the change you want to see in the world.'

Mahatma Gandhi

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Abraham Lincoln

"Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have."

Unknown 

"Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, faith looks up! Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly and trust our creator."

"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."

John F. Kennedy

"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."

Thomas Jefferson

"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. "

Henry David Thoreau

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

Soren Kierkegaard