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The gods favor the bold. -OvidFortune favors the bold. -TerenceThe future is to those who take it. -Adalai StevensonIf you are reluctant to ask the way, you will be lost. -Malay ProverbDo not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

-Ralph Waldo EmersonThe timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par. -Mark TwainAs soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person had thoughtfor you, you are on your way to being a remarkable man.

- J.M. BarrieFor God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself. -Robert Louis StevensonThe right man is the one that seizes the moment. -Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we arepowerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.' We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not justin some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Marianna Williamson, A Re

turn to Love.Run in God's name and let the world stand back in wonder. -Chariots of Fire (movie)Unlike others who preceded them, the Wright Brothers embraced the idea that their vehicle would more closely resemble the precarious bicycle rather than the steady wagon.They saw the airplane as an inherently unstable vehicle, yet one that could, through calculation and boldness, be mastered or controlled. -Jerry Daniels,The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominantcharacteristic is that it is unafraid. It is unafraid of what other people think. . . It does not adapt either its pace or its objectives to the pace and objec

tives of its neighbors. It thinks it's own thoughts, it reads it's own books, itdevelops it's own hobbies, and it is governed by it's own conscience. The herd

may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone. -Raymond B. FosdickLet us dare to face the situation. -Albert SchweitzerBe bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. -Basil KingEven God lends a hand to honest boldness. -Menander,He that does not ask will never get a bargain. -French ProverbThere is always room for a man of force. -Ralph Waldo EmersonWhatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf the mass of people hesitate to act, strike swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can do everything. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nobody gets unanimous praise--ever. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out. -Seth GodinAd eundum quo nemo ante iit.To boldly go where no man has gone before. -Latin QuotationYou don't know what good friends books can be till you try them, till you try many of them." -Carl Sandburg's sixth grade teacherBooks rule the world, or at least those nations in it which have written language, the others do not count. -VoltaireA book is like a garden carried in the pocket. -Chinese proverb(In books) we converse with wise men. -Francis Bacon

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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. -Matin FarqularTupper

Literature is my utopia . . . No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet gracious discourse of my book friends. -Helen KellerFrom my infancy I was passionately fond of reading and all the money that came into my hands was laid-out in the purchasing of books. -Benjamin FranklinThe reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest menof past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied convers

ation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts. -Rene DescartesBooks are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.-James Russell LowellResolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. -Horace MannI find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was: heshuts the book a richer man. I would never willingly read any others than such.-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rules for Reading

I cannot live without books. -Thomas JeffersonAs the Supreme Being has expressed, and as it were printed his Ideas in the Creation, Men express their Ideas in Books, which by this great Invention of these latter Ages may last as long as the Sun and Moon, and perish only in the generalWreck of Nature . . . There is no other Method of fixing those Thoughts which arise and disappear in the Mind of Man, and transmitting them to the last Periods

of Time; no other Method of giving a Permanency to our Ideas, and preserving theKnowledge of any particular Person, when his Body is mixed with the common Massof Matter, and his Soul retired into the World of Spirits. Books are the Legaci

es that a great Genius leaves to Mankind, which are delivered down from Generation to Generation, as Presents to the Posterity of those who are yet unborn. -Joseph Addison,The man who enters a library is in the best society this world affords; the goodand the great welcome him, surround him, and humbly ask to be allowed to becomehis servants. -Anonymous

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. -RalphWaldo Emerson,