“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
– Václav Havel

“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The fact is that in order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.” – Sydney Smith