I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
-- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
-- Helen Keller

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
-- Miguel de Cervantes

This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
-- Bette Davis

The way to become boring is to say everything.
-- Voltaire

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
-- Plato