Replying to Favourite Quotes

What are your favourite quoes?
Ski related and non-ski related
heres mine:

Ski Related:
Powder. It's a drug. And like any other potentially addictive substance, it sucks up time, money and inclination, all of which eventually drain through a hole in your psyche. Seasons are squandered in its pursuit, lives are lost in its fury. It's a silken seductress, to which having once fallen prey to those wiles, you will always return, but whose continuous promise of tumultuous crescendo is never quite realized - there can never, ever, be enough powder. Given that, there can never, ever, be enough said about an inanimate substance with the power to mold disciples and the cosmic ability to both transform and transfix. It's a dimension. Powder.

The ski bum trades security for face shots, the future for the moment. Considering how hollow the promise of a corporate career has become, who can say the ski bum is not the wiser investor of his or her youth?

Non-Ski Related:
Be the change you see in the world

Our greatest glory is not in never falling down, but rising every time we fall

i would give credit, but i dont remember where i got em from.