Lois McMaster Bujold

"If you can't do what you want, do what you can."

- "Memory" by Lois McMaster Bujold

Mark Twain

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

- Mark Twain, author

Lewis Carroll

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."

- Lewis Carroll, author, mathematician, photographer

Louisa May Alcott

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them."

- Louisa May Alcott, author

Epicurus

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

- Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher

Mabel Newcomber

"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement"

- Mabel Newcomber