My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

-- Zeno of Citium

Life is like a long journey carrying a heavy burden. Never hurry.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

If you do not know you may fall halfway through your work, you will not fall halfway through.

-- The visionary who brokered the alliance that overthrew Japan's feudal government and launched the country into modernity

I shall dedicate myself utterly, giving everything until death claims me.

-- The legendary chancellor and military strategist of the Shu Han kingdom during China's Three Kingdoms period

Promote talent and talent alone.

-- The dominant warlord of China's Three Kingdoms era

We will either find a way, or make one.

-- The Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with elephants and brought Rome to its knees