We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

Benazir Bhutto

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning is not compulsory... Neither is survival.

W. Edwards Deming

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes