Security is mostly a superstition.

I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn't have the power to say Yes.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot [George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880)]
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.