The culture we have

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

~Morrie Schwartz

You can't

You can't win the raffle if you don't buy the ticket.

~Ally McBeal

Sometimes

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see. You have to believe what you feel.

~Morrie Schwartz

You may have

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

~Mary Pickford

When faced

When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out.

~David Weatherford

Do

Do, or do not.
There is no try.

~Yoda

A political victory

A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

These questions

These questions which we lust to ask about the future are a confession of sin. God has no answer for them. No answer in words can reply to a question of things. It is not in an arbitrary "decree of God" but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of tomorrow; for the soul will not have us ready any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil which curtains events it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson