"It is never too late to
become what you might have been."
G. Eliot

"Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change."
Confucius

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
V. Borge

"The more you sweat in peacetime,
the less you bleed during war."
Sunzi

"Writers don't retire.
I will always be a writer."
A. Rooney

"Do your little bit of good where you are; 
its those little bits of good put together 
that overwhelm the world." 
D. Tutu 

"If you smile when no one else is around,
you really mean it."
A. Rooney

"A writer's job is to tell the truth."
A. Rooney

"There is no such thing as a little freedom.
Either you are all free, or you are not free."
W. Cronkite

"You must show the world that
you abhor fighting."
D. Tutu

"Without forgiveness,
there is no future."
D. Tutu

"My humanity is bound up by yours,
we can only be human together."
D. Tutu

"A hungry man is not a free man."
A. E. Stevenson

"In a controversy the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves."
Buddha

Warhawk - "What are you supposed to do when you
have the weight of the world on your shoulders?"
Green Lantern -  "Plant your feet."
Justice League Unlimited - The Once and Future Thing

"Where do thoughts go once they've been thought?"
Anonymous Child

"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
J. Brothers

"The fishermen know that the sea is
dangerous and the storm terrible,
but they have never found these dangers
sufficient reason for remaining ashore."
V. Van Gogh

"If there's a book you really want to read,
but it hasn't been written yet,
then you must write it."
T. Morrison

"Find a place of bliss."
M. Alibrando

"The journey towards wisdom never ends."
M. Alibrando

"I feel I am at my wisest when I am actually seeking wisdom and knowledge."
M. Alibrando

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates

"All you have to do is write one true sentence.
Write the truest sentence that you know."
E. Hemingway

"Now, it's your turn. Jump!"
R. Bradbury

"...go forth into the world and explode an idea."
Me misquoting R. Bradbury

"We are all rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom."
R. Bradbury

"...we're so busy looking out,
to find way and means,
we forget to look in."
R. Bradbury

"What we are trying to do is find a way
to release the truth that lies in all of us."
R. Bradbury

"Dream and learn and build."
R. Bradbury

"...the entire history of mankind is problem solving...
Me misquoting R. Bradbury

What sets you free?
M. Alibrando

"Eventually you learn there are no rules except the ones you make up."
R. Bradbury

“Yell. Jump. Play.”

“Go do it.”

“…find the courage to rebel, change your life…”
Me misquoting R. Bradbury

"The truth is, part of me is every age.
I'm a three-year-old, I'm a five-year-old,
I'm a thirty-seven-year-old, I'm a fifty-year-old.
I've been through all of them and I know what it's like.
I delight in being a child when it's appropriate to
be a child.
I delight in being a wise old man when it's appropriate to
be  a wise old man.
Think of all I can be! I am every age up to my own.
Do you understand?"
M. Schwartz

"You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.
Looking back makes you competitive. and age is not a competitive issue."
M. Schwartz

"If you are always battling against getting older,
you're always going to be unhappy, because
it will happen anyhow."
M. Schwartz

"...if you found meaning in life,
you don't want to go back.
You want to go forward.
you want to see more.
You want to do more."
M. Schwartz

"You must learn to govern your passions; they will be your undoing."
Spock to McCoy in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan

"We are not the stony dry ground over
which the wind blows and the river runs.
We are part of the energy that gives the wind
motion and that drives the river to to the sea."
R. Fulghum