"Without ambition, one starts nothing. 
Without work, one finishes nothing. 
The prize will not be sent to you. 
You have to win it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."
-- John Churton Collins, critic

"You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." Ziggy

"It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class."
-- J. Willard Marriot

"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide
how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us."
— Stephen Covey