'Tis pity if the case require
    (Or so we say) that in the end
We speak the literal to inspire the understanding of a friend.

But so with all, from babes that play
    At hide-and-seek to God afar,
So all who hide too well away
    Must speak and tell us where they are.
                                                        -Robert Frost

". . ,But you cannot change what you are, only what you do."
                                        ~The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman

"A man must face himself before he can face his enemies."

"I wouldn't want to watch you disappear into your private world & shut the door.  It might be safe, but  there's no one else.  There's no point to it.  Even the safest world isn't complete without other people in it.  Because no matter how perfect that world seems, the beauty is too much to bear alone.
 

"Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else."
                                                                                                     -I don't know.

" 'Don't try to be who you're not.' You've probably heard that saying.  But the question is, who are we?  And who decides who we are?"
                                                                                                  -from A Place Apart by Paula Fox

"You are only what you are when no one is looking."
                                                    -Robert C. Edwards

"The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon."
                                                                    -Calista Flockhart

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."
                                                            -William Blake

"...There is no single future cut into stone, predetermined, every word prewritten, unchangeable and absolute.  There are choices.  There are many paths, many possible futures.  We choose.  We make our own future.  And we make it not through our dramatic deeds, our great decisions; we make it, we choose it, through the simplest, most insignificant acts of our lives.  Our future hangs on a thread, a single word, an impulse, a moment of anger, a careless gesture, or a smile.  Never forget."
                                                                     -From the book A Time of Darkness by Sherryl Jordan

"We all get dealt a hand.  Whether we like it or not, those are the cards we have to play with. . ."
                                                             -From How I Changed My Life by Todd Strasser