If you can't explain it simply, you don't know it well enough.
 ~ Albert Einstein

It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
 ~ Sir Edmund Hillary

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
 ~ James Thurber

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
 ~ Sir Walter Scott

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
 ~ Thomas Carlyle

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
 ~ Aesop

Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.
 ~ Joseph Campbell

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
 ~ Anais Nin

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
 ~ Gandhi

Travelers, it is late.  Life's sun is going to set.  During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings.
 ~ Rumi

But why had we come, if not to depend upon our own resources and in so doing, discover more about them?  There are circuits and juices in every person that are the heritage of millions of years of evolution and survival in wild country.  They need exercising - add a twinge of fear and wonder, and they can bring the world into focus with astonishing clarity.
 ~ James Baldwin