"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."
Albert Einstein

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
Edward Everett Hale
 

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
 --George Eliot

"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher though, awakens your own expectations."
Patricia Neal

 
"What is now proven was once only imagined."
William Blake

 
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior."
D.A. Battista