“One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.”

~ John W. Foster

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down”

~ Mary Pickford

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”

~ Niccolo Machiavelli