People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
– Steve Jobs
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
– Benjamin Disraeli
I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me.
– Walt Whitman
This day is all that is good and fair.
It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was like lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any built by the hand of man.
– Theodore Roosevelt after camping in Yosemite National Park
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
– Wilma Rudolph
We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort.
– Jesse Owens
If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.
– Carl Lewis
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
– Muhammad Ali
As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we’ve been given.
– Mary Lou Retton
Laughter is an instant vacation.
– Milton Berle
I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.
– Elton John
The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.
– Mark Twain
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
– Truman Capote
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
– Ernest Hemingway
Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
– Zig Ziglar
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
– Benjamin Franklin
Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
– Brian Wilson (of the Beach Boys)
Everybody has choked. In the 1974 U.S. Open, I kept hitting the ball right to right. My nerves wouldn’t allow me to adjust. That’s what choking is–being so nervous you can’t find a swing or a putting stroke you can trust, and gaining momentum from it. Byron [Nelson] gave me the best cure for it. Walk slowly, talk slowly, deliberately do everything more slowly than you normally do. It has a way of settling you down.
– Tom Watson
The red and white and starry blue
Is freedom’s shield and hope.
– John Philip Sousa
As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.
– Michael Dell
It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
– Muhammad Ali
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
– Harry S. Truman
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.
– John F. Kennedy
The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It was a feeling I can’t describe. I still get it every time I get into a race car.
– Mario Andretti
June 30, 1805 – Great Falls, Montana: Great numbers of Buffalow in every direction, I think 10,000 may be Seen in a view.
– William Clark
Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
– Harry S. Truman
When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
– T. S. Eliot
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
– Tony Blair
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
– Thomas Jefferson
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
– Babe Ruth
National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.
– John F. Kennedy
The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.
– Gertrude S. Wister
The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.
– Robert Frost
If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
– Ben Hogan
You always get a special kick on Opening Day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
– Joe DiMaggio
When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
– William Shakespeare
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
– Mark Twain
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
– Tom Landry
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!”
– Robin Williams
May you live as long as you want, And never want as long as you live.
– Irish Blessing
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
– Walt Disney
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
– Maya Angelou