When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch. – Author unknown, from a television commercial

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. – e.e. cummings, 1955

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. – Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996