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"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots." - Victor Hugo, from "Thoughts," Postscriptum de ma vie, in Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography, Funk and Wagnalls (1907) as translated by Lorenzo O'Rourke

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." - Jim Rohn

"To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake." - Henry David Thoreau, 1854, from Walden.

"If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and with the dole, Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul." - Muslih-uddin Sadi (also known as Saadi Shirazi), from his work The Gulistan (The Rose Garden), written in 1258.

"If you want milk, don't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you." - Richard Branson, from his 2006 book.

"If your heart is tender this year, you are not broken. You are human." - Jack Kornfield

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." - Helen Keller

"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words." - Thomas Reid

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all." - Emily Dickinson

"Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do." - Albert Einstein, from 1945 Atlantic interview, republished in 2007 in Einstein on Politics, p378.

"Champions keep playing until they get it right." - Billie Jean King

"Action is the foundational key to success." - Pablo Picasso

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." - Vince Lombardi

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker

"Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you." - Diana, Princess of Wales