A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Harry Truman

The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.

Sigmund Freud

I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile.

Alan Shepard

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

MARY OLIVER

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

VICTOR HUGO

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.

Olympia Dukakis

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer

John F. Kennedy

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Coretta Scott King

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear'not absence of fear.

Mark Twain