“At least I galloped! When did you?”

–”Equus” by Peter Shaffer

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore–
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over–
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

–Langston Hughes

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

–Henry David Thoreau

“There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.”

– Tennessee Williams

“My personal view is that engaging enemies is sacrificing velocity for friction.”

– Chris Brogan via Twitter

“He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.”

–Albert Einstein

“It was in a bathtub in New York, reading Italian words aloud from a dictionary, that I first started mending my soul. My life had gone to bits and I was so unrecognizable to myself that I probably couldn’t have picked me out of a police lineup. But I felt a glimmer of happiness when I started studying Italian, and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirty–this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.”

–”Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert

“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine.”

–John Galt (from “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand)

“The penalty of success is to be bored by those who used to snub you.”

–Lady Astor

“Success is the best revenge.”