These are a bunch of quotes I have amassed over the years. Each quote has spoken to me and I hope they will speak to you as well.

"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."
- E. Joseph Cossman

"It ain't over till it's over."
- Yogi Berra

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it!"
- Yogi Berra

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
- Rene Descartes

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
- unknown

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
- Steven Wright

"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Walt Disney

"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
- Vince Lombardi

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell

"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
- Carl Sagan

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
- G. B. Burgin

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix

"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
- the Duchess of Windsor

"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
- Bertrand Russell

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
- Albert Einstein

"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny."
- Guy Davenport

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
- Niels Bohr

"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
- Niels Bohr

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
- Buckminster Fuller

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."
- Paul Dirac

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."
- Gail Godwin

"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
- Henry Kissinger

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it."
- Steven Wright

"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
- Igor Stravinsky

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
- Carl Gustav Jung

"I am become death, shatterer of worlds."
- Robert J. Oppenheimer

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
- Robert Orben

"Men have become the tools of their tools."
- Henry David Thoreau

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."
- Woody Allen

"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
- Wilson Mizner

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- Alan Kay

"Never mistake motion for action."
- Ernest Hemingway

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
- Irving Kristol

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
- Bill Gates

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible."
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
- H. M. Warner

"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."
- General George S. Patton

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
- Mark Twain

"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong."
- Wolfgang Pauli

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
- Paul Valery

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
- General Douglas MacArthur

"The truth is more important than the facts."
- Frank Lloyd Wright