It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. — Leonardo da Vinci

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. — Ayn Rand

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. — Dr. Seuss

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ― Aristotle

Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. — Ayn Rand

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason. — Ayn Rand

The natural desire of good men is knowledge. — Leonardo da Vinci

“From the day we begin caring for the children in our lives, we are preparing them to leave. It’s the most difficult thing to face– a grand abandonment of our own devising.”  — Suzie Bright

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They … Continue reading →

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. — Viktor E. Frankl Be sure to “friend” Dr. … Continue reading →

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king … … We fear … Continue reading →

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. — Thomas A. Edison