Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone, and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson

If I see, or hear, or feel anything that another man has done or made, if in this track that he has left I can perceive a person, his understanding, his desires, his longings, his struggles -- that, to me, is art. I. Gall., Theories of Art

If only you knew of the things I have seen in the darkness of night . . . at times I have been nearly demented with wretchedness at being unable to express these things in visual terms. In comparison with these thoughts, every single print is a failure, and reflects not even a fraction of what might have been. M.C. Escher

The world needs more people with a vision of how they want the world to be and the motivation to make that change. -- Leigh Steinberg

It's more important to me to be a better person. At the end of the day that's what people remember. Football is a game that I obviously love to play and a lot of guys enjoy playing the game. But that's not who I am. I'm not just a football player. I'm a human being, an individual, a person. I respect other human beings and that's what it's all about, giving respect to other human beings and just really trying to have an impact on people's lives that I come across because I am in a position to do that. -- LaDainien Tomlinson, comments after winning 2006 AP Offensive Player of the Year

I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left. -- anonymous

On Financial Advice: Put most of your energy into your work and learn to communicate. I think the people who become really successful are those who sense what others are feeling and how to make them comfortable. -- Charles Schwab

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter won't mind. -- Dr. Seuss

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. -- Ralph W. Sockman

What will never change: Good design is beautiful. And as visionary Santiago Calatrava argues, beauty matters: The value of great design is not just in its bottom-line impact but in how it enhances human dignity. -- Julie Schlosser, Fortune

I try to explore in terms of the life I know best those things which are common to all culture. -- anonymous artist

The world is drowning in detail but starved for knowledge. -- Naisbitt

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is Taste. Others have the same love in such excess, that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is Art. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

But this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part. The shows of day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, and the like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality. Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowds keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden

We will not be measured by our aspirations. We will be measured by our actions. -- Lee Scott, Walmart

"Sometimes it's not all laid out for you, and you've got to fight . and then you've got to fight some more," Tomlinson said in a private moment before ducking into his post-game press conference. "That's the best kind of victory, to me, especially when you're playing a team like the Chicago Bears. They're a good team, the best in the NFC, and a tough, tough team. To beat them you have to be tough in return, so it's even sweeter when you win one that way."-- LaDainian Tomlinson

"The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human. But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful." -- Elizabeth Edwards --