We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

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"If you’re willing to stand for what you believe in . . . you won’t need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes."

- Whoopi Goldberg

Courage

"You could travel with the sheep, follow everybody else’s stuff, but then you’re not you. I guess if I want to say anything it’s ‘Be you.’ Be true to you, and that should make the ride a little more interesting."

- Whoopi Goldberg

Belief in Self

"If you’re willing to stand for what you believe in…you won’t need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes."

- Whoopi Goldberg

Belief in Self

"We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure."

- Whoopi Goldberg

Failure

"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."

- Whoopi Goldberg

Joy

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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

- Leonardo DaVinci

Inspiration

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."

- Socrates

Inspiration

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."

- Wilbur Wright

Inspiration

"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."

- Charles A. Lindbergh

Inspiration

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Inspiration