"It's never too late to be who you might have been."

-- George Eliot

"We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who, what and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined."

-- N. Scott Momaday, from The Man Made of Words

"There is a great danger in trying to interpret the dance in words. Words get between us and the dance and the meaning behind the dance -- just one more thing between us and the meaning. One must dance the dance and go through it to the meaning."

-- Augustine

"Hope cannot be said to exist,
nor can it be said not to exist.
It is just like roads across the earth.
For actually the earth had no roads
to begin with, but when many people
pass one way, a road is made.

-- Lu Hsun, China 1921