Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.-Calvin Coolidge     But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.-Ernest Hemingway     A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.-B. F. Skinner     It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed…

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.-Heraclitus     Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.-Soren Kierkegaard     We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin     Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.-John W. Gardner     Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.-Rita Mae Brown     All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. – Sally Ride     Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.-Paulo Coelho…

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.-Martin Luther King, Jr.     If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.-J. K. Rowling     The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.-Chief Joseph     Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.-Sonia Sotomayor     Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no…