"I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance." -James A. Autry
"We do not know who we are until we see what we can do. " -Martha Grimes
"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it." -Rabindranath Tagore
"Idiots...nothing can live forever." -Magus Dactylus
"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice." -Ayn Rand
"The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late." -Daniel Defoe
"Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station." -Joseph Addison
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. " -Elmer Letterman
"The perfect man of action, is the suicide." -William Carlos Williams
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart