"Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want."

Marsha Sinetar

"Be sure to take the most direct route to your dreams. Never take your eyes off your goal, or you will lose course. Never look back in sorrow, or you will trip."

Joe Brown

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

Margaret Thatcher

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

Seneca

"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."

Whitney Young, Jr."