"I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity." - William Pitt
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. - Theodore Roosevelt
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. - Louis D. Brandeis
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. - Robert H. Goddard