“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. -Maya Angelou

Like wildflowers; you must allow yourself to grow in places people never thought you would -E.V.

You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle. -Timothy Dalton

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” ― Ovid

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ― Maya Angelou

We all came in on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now. -Martin Luther King Jr