"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

— Albert Bartlett

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues.

Such people are convinced that the doors of heaven will be opened only to poor wretches like themselves who go through life without leaving any trace but their threadbare attempts to belittle others and to exclude - and destroy if possible - those who, by the simple fact of their existence, show up their own poorness of spirit, mind, and guts.

Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them."

— Carlos Ruiz Zafron

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

— Howard Thurman

"Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."

— Mike Tyson

"Pecunia non olet"

— Titus Flavius Caesar Vespasianus Augustus

"They tried to bury us, but they did not realize that we were seeds."

— Mexican proverb