"After I found encouragement, I had to learn persistence."
Soprano Nicole Cabell

"...so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible."
King Azaz and the Mathemagician, from The Phantom Tollbooth

"Life is short, and we do not have much time to gladden the hearts of those who travel with us. So let us be swift to love, and make haste to be kind."
Henri F. Amiel

"Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated."
Fred (Mr.) Rogers

When You Miss Class

"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."
Miles Kington

"I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow."
Woodrow Wilson