"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
— Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

"Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want something badly enough. They are there to keep out the other people"
— Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
— Winston S. Churchill (Their Finest Hour)

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. "
— Thomas A. Edison

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
— Abraham Lincoln