Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.  ~Emily Dickinson 

Map out your future, but do it in pencil. -- musician Jon Bon Jovi

Never look too constricted.  Keep things elastic---in your life as well as in your clothes. --fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. ~~John F. Kennedy