(Sigurd F. Olson)
Every man is free to rise as far as He's able or willing, but the degree to which He thinks determines the degree to which Hell rise.
(Ayn Rand)
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)
It is much more important to understand how the forces of water and gravity combine to move dirt than it is to actually dig dirt, install water bars, or build puncheon.
(Woody Hesselbarth)
When 1 stand before God at the end of my life, 1 would hope that 1 would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 1 used everything you gave me.
(Erma Bombeck)
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
(Henry David Thoreau)
We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
(Wallace Stegner)
We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft.
(Adlai Stevenson)