Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world — Albert Einstein

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself — William Faulkner

Try not, do or do not — Yoda, Jedi Master – Star Wars

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. — Max Planck, Recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics 1918

When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what? — Sydney Harris