Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. -- Thomas Edison

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -- Galileo Galilei

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it ain't fun -- it's entertainment. -- David Mamet (as relayed by Joss Whedon)

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. -- Seneca

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey