Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Samuel Johnson

Venus favors the bold.

Ovid

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security . . . may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician, or any other of thousands of things, because . . . it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no “future.”

Henry M. Wriston

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

Rita Mae Brown

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?