"I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them."
— Karen E. Quinones Miller

"We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn."
— Frank Herbert (Dune)

"Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it."
— Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD

"Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way."
— Sheri L. Dew

"If my mind can conceive it,
My heart can believe it,
I know I can achieve it!"
— Jesse Jackson

"'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners."
— William Shakespeare

"if you cast a magic spell upon the world to make them think you're amazing, they will only care about you without a clue to whats going on. if you cast confidence into yourself, you will be wonderful even if the whole world still doesnt have a clue to whats going on."
— altwixx

"Bink thought about how much of his adventure had centered around Chameleon's quest for a spell to make her normal--when she really was quite satisfactory, and even somewhat challenging, as she was. How many people similarly spent their lives searching for their own spells--some gratuitous benefit such as a silver tree or political power or undeserved acclaim--when all they really needed was to be satisfied with what they already had? Sometimes what they had was better than what they thought they wanted. Chameleon had thought she wanted to be normal; Trent had thought he wanted armed conquest; and Bink himself had thought he wanted a demonstrable magic talent. Everyone thought he wanted something. But Bink's real quest, at the end, has been to preserve Chameleon and Trent and himself as they were, and to make Xanth accept them that way. (343-44)."
— Piers Anthony (A Spell for Chameleon)

"Bink thought about how much of his adventure had centered around Chameleon's quest for a spell to make her normal--when she really was quite satisfactory, and even somewhat challenging, as she was. How many people similarly spent their lives searching for their own spells--some gratuitous benefit such as a silver tree or political power or undeserved acclaim--when all they really needed was to be satisfied with what they already had? Sometimes what they had was better than what they thought they wanted. Chameleon had thought she wanted to be normal; Trent had thought he wanted armed conquest; and Bink himself had thought he wanted a demonstrable magic talent. Everyone thought he wanted something. But Bink's real quest, at the end, has been to preserve Chameleon and Trent and himself as they were, and to make Xanth accept them that way. (343-44)."
— Piers Anthony (A Spell for Chameleon)