~ "The greatest teacher, failure is." - Yoda

~ "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." – Vincent Van Gogh

~ "When one door closes, another one opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell

~ "Everyone that you fight is not your enemy and everyone who helps you is not your friend." - Mike Tyson