The first rule of success, and the one that supercedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

- Michael Korda

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

- Ella Fitzgerald

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have some power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

- Louisa May Alcott

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication -- particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

- Thor Heyerdahl

I could never tell where inspiration begins and impulse leaves off. I suppose the answer is in the outcome. If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

- Beryl Markham

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

- Hafiz of Persia

Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.

- Lama Surya Das