"By the essence and nature of existence, contradictions
do not exist. If you find yourself faced by an apparent
contradiction, check your premises. One of them will be
wrong." -- Ayn Rand

"Rock seems stronger than water. Thousand years later,
rock is washed away, water is still there." -- Lao Tsu

"Lost is not damned or condemned, it is merely out of place"

" And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
`Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.'
And he replied:
` Go out into the darkness and put your hand in the Hand of God.
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a
known way.'"
M. Louise Haskins

"Joy is the goal of existence, and it is not to be
stumbled upon but to achieved." -- Ayn Rand

"Hard work has a future payoff; laziness pays off now!"

The future belongs to those who can see it and get there first.

"The highest reward for a persons toil is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it." John Ruskin

The trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.
 
* Truth is not always popular, but it is always right.