Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
- Simone de Beauvoir

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
- Robert Fritz

An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
- Sydney J. Harris

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
- Gloria Swanson (1899 - 1983)