646 – “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.”

–Dr Seuss

573 – “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. “

–Sarah Frances Brown [See Source Notes]

540 – “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”

–Mason Cooley [Attributed]

463 – “I’m not sure what I’ll do, but – well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.”

–Sally Carrol Happer in F Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Ice Palace”

403 – “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”

-Ayn Rand [Paraphrase, see Source Notes]