Memorable Words

I was assembling a private page of funny or meaningful quotes that people had mailed to me--when I mentioned this project to my friend Stephanie, she obligingly sent me pages and pages of quotes for my collection. I thought that I should make the collection public, in the hope that others might find humor and inspiration in these words.

-Gita

Three ways to think of Chocolate:
1. As a reward for having done something good.
2. As a consolation for having done something bad.
3. As a diversion from not having done anything at all.
(from Pamela Pettler's sig)

creationism

The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of the void by the normal efforts of a team of normally talented programmers. In fact, experience has shown repeatedly that good designs arise only from evolutionary, exploratory interaction between one (or at most a small handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and an active user population - and that the first try at a big new idea is always wrong. Unfortunately, because these truths don't fit the planning models beloved of management, they are generally ignored.

(from Online Computing Dictionary)

But it does mean that we should look out for one another when and as much as we can; and that we have a personal responsibility for our behavior; and that our behavior has consequences of a very real and profound nature. We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, "You can't change the world."

But the world is changing every day. Only question is...who's doing it? You or somebody else? Will you choose to lead, or be led by others?

JMS (creator of Babylon 5)

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
Annie Sullivan

You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world.
Charlie Chaplin

Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things 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.
Mark Twain

Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!
Charles Dickens

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a sort of library.
Jorge Luis Borges

It is a truth univerally acknowledged, that a single neuron in possession of a good potential must be in want of a network.
Daniel Gardner, Neurobiology of Neural Networks

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
Hal Borland

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time.... Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.
Donny Osmond

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
August Wilson

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.
Jeanne-Marie Roland

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
H. D. Thoreau

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
T. E. Lawrence

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

What If Dr.Seuss Wrote for Computer?

Here's an easy game to play.
Here's an easy thing to say:

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort.
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash.
And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
Then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash!

You can't say this?
What a shame sir!
We'll find you
another game sir.

If the label on the cable on the table at your house.
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse
But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
That's repeated rejected by the printer down the hall.

And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang.
'Cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk.
And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risc,
Then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom!

from the IEEE CS Student newletter

The Brain--is wider than the Sky--
For--put them side by side--
The one the other will contain
With ease--and You--beside--

The Brain is deeper than the sea--
For--hold them--Blue to Blue--
The one the other will absorb--
As Sponges--Buckets--do--

The Brain is just the weight of God--
For--Heft them--Pound for Pound--
And they will differ--if they do--
As Syllable from Sound--

Emily Dickinson

A mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimension.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King Jr.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
Charles Swindoll

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are - chaff and grain together - certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away...
Dinah Mulock

This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
D.H. Everett

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
John Andrew Holmes

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre' Gide

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
Lee Salk

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
George Eliot

You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.
Richard Martin Stern

Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and softly sits on your shoulder.
L. Richard Lessor

Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
C.S. Lewis

Life is like music. It must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct; not by rule.
Samuel Butler

The opposite of love is not hate; it's selfishness. And apathy is the strongest symptom of that. In it, a person is saying he is too busy worrying about himself to bother with worrying about anyone else.
R.D. Clyde

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity.
Omar Idn Al-Halif

I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself.
Joseph Conrad

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot

It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Lucius Anneaus Seneca

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
David Lloyd George

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Jawaharlal Nehru

In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
Sheldon Kopp

Fortune favors the bold.
Virgil

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...
Carl Zwanzig

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Carl Jung

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Ray Bradbury

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Miss Manners

Let us endeavour to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain

What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Linus Pauling

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
Frederick Douglass

The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts.
Anais Nin

Reading is a private, intimate act for which we are accountable to no one.
Shirley Hazzard

Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.
Adrienne Rich

Writing permits me to be more than I am. Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.
Alice Walker

I believe in dragons, good men and other fantasy creatures.
(Unknown)

Take your life into your own hands, and what happens. A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
(Anonymous)

Our waking mind is only the smallest part of us; the greater part of our being inhabits the dark continent of the self we know only in dreams or sometimes catch sight of out of the corner of the eye.
Madeleine L'Engle

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, its a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
Thomas Carlyle

Three quarks for Muster Mark!
Sure he hasn't got much of a bark
And sure any he has it's all beside the mark
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
(The quote is memorable for inspiring Gell-Mann's naming of the fundamental constituents of the nucleon.)

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two or more are called a law firm; and that three or more become a Congress. And by God I have had this Congress!
John Adams

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Stephen Covey

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
(Unknown)

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Zadok Rabinwitz

Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right.
Henry Ford

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Stephan Grellet

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.
Albert Einstein

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Friends- they are kind to each other's hopes, they cherish each other's dreams.
H. D. Thoreau

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
Francis Crawford

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
Sir James M. Barrie

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Chinese Proverb

I Saw a Child

I saw a child who couldn't walk,
sit on a horse, laugh and talk.
Then ride it through a field of daisies
and yet he could not walk unaided.
I saw a child, no legs below,
sit on a horse, and make it go
through woods of green
and places he had never been
to sit and stare
except from a chair.

I saw a child who could only crawl
mount a horse and sit up tall.
Put it through degrees of paces
and laugh at the wonder in our faces.
I saw a child born into strife.
Take up and hold the reins of life
and that same child was heard to say,
Thank God for showing me the way...

John Anthony Davies

Growth is the only evidence of life.
John Henry Cardinal Newman

Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
George Matthew Adams

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F Kennedy

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.
Tommy Lasorda

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
Larry Niven

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
Gifford Pinchot

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
Phillip Stanhope

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
Woodrow Wilson

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.
John Harold

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
Rose Lane

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?
Katharine Graham

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. And yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi

It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again.
Vince Lombardi

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
Phillips Brooks

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese Proverb

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Jeremy Collier

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather than dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
Bob Conklin

"You are not at all like my rose," he said... "You are beautiful, but you are empty....One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

If I had my life to live over I'd like to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual trouble, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. You see, I'm one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. I've been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat, and a parachute. If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have. If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds, I would pick more daisies.
Nadine Stair (c. 85 years old)

(The previous quote has been attributed to a number of authors. For a more comprehensive discussion of the work, see this site.)

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude of the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.
(Unknown)

Once an opportunity has passed, it cannot be caught.
Unknown

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
Annie Besant

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
Jean Cocteau

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
Henry J. Kaiser

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere...
Orison Swett Marden

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.
Grace Speare

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e. e. cummings

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
T.H. Huxley

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Dorothy Nevill

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei

The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese proverb

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream.
John Alan Appleman

PRESS ON. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Dr. George W. Crane

He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.
Hindu Maxim

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Dr. Hans Selye

"Where there is a will there is a way," is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
Samuel Smiles

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
Benjamin Disraeli

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
Jerome P. Fleishman

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
Kahlil Gibran

I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be bought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.
William Dean Howells

A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
William Shedd

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Sophocles

Nothing is impossible to industry.
Periander

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
Katharine Hepburn

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now.
Joan Baez

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Thomas Arnold Bennett

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl Buck

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epicurus

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.
Eric Hoffer

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Foster C. McClellan

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau

None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.
(Unknown)

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will: "I will drink the ocean", says the persevering soul, "at my will, mountains will crumble up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.
Vivekananda

You have to grow from inside out.
None can teach you, none can make you spiritual.
There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Vivekananda

And it came to pass in those days, as it had come before and would come again, that the Dark lay heavy on the land and weighed down the hearts of men, and the green things failed, and hope died. And men cried out to the Creator, saying, O Light of the Heavens, Light of the World, let the Promised One be born of the mountain, according to the prophecies, as he was in ages past and will be in ages to come. Let the Prince of the Morning sing to the land that green things will grow and the valleys give forth lambs. Let the arm of the Lord of the Dawn shelter us from the Dark, and the great sword of justice defend us. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time

If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York. :-)
Larry Wall to Dan Bernstein in <10187@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>

And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-)
Larry Wall in <10209@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Orison Swett Marden

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
Barry Duncan

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
Anna Jameson

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
Decimus Juvenal

If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.
Unknown

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
Unknown

There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will.
Grenville Kleiser

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.
Sir Walter Scott

The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
Lord Byron

What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.
George Eliot

But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is the final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you know what people really want, you can't hate them anymore, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.
Orson Scott Card

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett

Face the facts candidly -- and then you can alter them.
Emmet Fox

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
John Wesley

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that you should never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
George Adams

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Henri-Frederic Amiel

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Erasmus

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.
George A. Dorsey

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.
Carol Pearson

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
Calvin Coolidge

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
(Unknown)

Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula LeGuin

The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.
Alfred A. Montapert

The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied with our present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes.
Dugald Stewart

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Kahlil Gibran

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Henry James

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
Sir Arthur Helps

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
(Unknown)

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.
Robert Collier

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on "giving as good as they get."
Elbert Hubbard

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
Henry George

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
John Masefield

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
Jimmy Carter

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots;
Kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruits
John Ruskin

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno

Courage: Doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles F. Kettering

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Eleanor Roosevelt

When written in Chinese, the word "Crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!"
John Greenleaf Whittier

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
William Lyon Phelps

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
Erik H. Erikson

Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
(Unknown)

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
Charles M. Schwab

The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!" - and get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
Abbie M. Dale

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others
Michel De Montaigne

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Bertrand Russell V. Delong

When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
(Unknown)

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance
Bruce Barton

Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.
(Unknown)

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Ausonius

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
Nelson Boswell

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
Charles Buxton

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas Edison

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
J. Krishnamarti

Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired. This is a common mental picture and it is totally false. No one of us, however crowded his life, has such an existence. What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time. That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one.
James Gordon Gilkey

When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.
(Unknown)

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep.
Madame Swetchine

While friends are near us, we feel that all is well....Our everyday life blossoms into bright possibilities.
Helen Keller

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Dag Hammarskjold

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde

Tsze-Kung asked, saying, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
Confucius

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.
Hannah More

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.
George Washington

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Amelia Earhart

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
James Boswell

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
William A. Foster

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
James Goldsmith

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson

When the Japanese mend broken objects they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold, because they believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
Barbara Bloom

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius

It is the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.
Claude M. Bristol

What we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.
Mother Teresa

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being over taken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
Benjamin Franklin

Too many of us wait to do the perfect thing, with the result we do nothing. The way to get ahead is to start now. While many of us are waiting until conditions are "just right" before we go ahead, others are stumbling along, fortunately ignorant of the dangers that beset them. By the time we are, in our superior wisdom, decided to make a start, we discover that those who have gone fearlessly on before, have, in their blundering way, traveled a considerable distance. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now, and that you will not know next year, if you wait.
The William Feather Magazine

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire
de la Rochefoucauld

Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come to-morrow. . . . Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. Sometime, somewhere, somehow we shall find that which we seek.
Helen Keller

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
Mark Twain

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.
Alan Alda

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Richard E. Byrd

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
Ernest Hello

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
William James

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.
Ruth Ross

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

The falling drops at last will wear the stone.
Lucretius

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
John Galsworthy

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
George Eliot

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Chinese Proverb

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have;
And take the step into the darkness of the unknown;
We must believe that one of two things will happen...
There will be something solid for us to stand on,
Or we will be taught to fly.
Patrick Overton

When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
Joseph Campbell

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Theresa

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

People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.
Howard W. Newton

What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot

I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a wounded squire pulling arrows out from his wound to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birth right but is defined by one's action.
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, 1994

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese Proverb

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
Miguel de Cervantes

Patience and perseverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
Susan Polis Schutz

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
Ziggy

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Janos Arany

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Basho

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Buckminster Fuller

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Ellen Parr

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.
(Unknown)

No pressure, no diamonds.
Mary Case

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
General Omar Bradley

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Greek Proverb

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
Barbara Bush, commencement address to Wellesley College

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
Norman Vincent Peale

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Sally Berger

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Robert A. Heinlein

Whatever the struggle continue the climb -- it may be only one step to the summit.
Diane Westlake

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
Buddha

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
August Hare

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver W. Holmes

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung

Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
Daisaku Ikeda

I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life ... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
Richard Bach

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Chief Seattle

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
Anais Nin

What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake

Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.
Coleman Cox

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
(Unknown)

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin

Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always.
Willa Cather

It may be that those who do most, dream most.
Stephen Leacock

You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.
Adam Marshall

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Jerry Chin

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun.
Ruth Westheimer

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
Clare Booth Luce

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
Harold Taylor

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Richard L. Evans

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence and determination.
Calvin Coolidge

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Nora Roberts

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest

A dreamer lives for eternity.
(Unknown)

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie

Courage conquers all things.
Ovid

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a profound mistake to think that everything has been discovered; as well think the horizon the boundary of the world.
Lemierre

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch

There'll be two quilts made out o' the same kind o' pieces, and jest as different as they can be....there's a heap more in the cuttin' out and the sewin' than there is in the caliker.
Eliza Calvert Hall

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
Rebecca West

Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda

Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
Jacob Braude

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Basho

All actual heroes are essential men,
And all men possible heroes
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Muriel Strode

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln

What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.
Alfred A. Montapert

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
Catherine O'Hara

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Goethe

If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears however measured and far away.
Henry David Thoreau

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised; the mosquito is swatted.
Marie O'Conner

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Dr. Dale Turner

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
Linda Ellerbee

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Appius Claudius

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pine

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.
Faith Whittlesey

Through perseverence many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli

Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann Goethe

Gold is tried by fire,
brave men by adversity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
George Lorimer

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.
Helen Hayes

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.
Hugh Prather

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning.
Helen Keller

We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are-
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning . . . Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Miles Davis

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim; so made that you cannot dip into it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it - drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love.
John Ruskin

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher

There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest...

In the calm details of work, we must learn patience, which in turn teaches energy, and energy gives us eternal youth made of self collectedness and enthusiasm.
Auguste Rodin

Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say, why not?
Robert F. Kennedy

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
Bernard Baruch, on creativity

Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Robert F. Kennedy

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Voltaire

People who fail to achieve their goals usually get stopped by frustration. They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead. I doubt you'll find many successful people who have not experienced this. All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.
Anthony Robbins

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind, and in fleeing them, the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino

Settle one difficulty, and you keep hundreds away.
Chinese Proverb

Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Sir Winston Churchill

They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting it again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
Geoffrey F. Abert

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure [like a hardy crustacean]. We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.
Gail Sheehy

The only one that can beat me is myself.
Michelle Kwan

Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie

Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.
H. Jackson Brown

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation ...was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind....Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as "grace under pressure" -- grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Do what you think is best for you and follow your dreams. Don't listen to negative comments from anyone else. When you decide on something, just go straight for it and keep at it until you get it.
Princess Tenko

The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle

When there is a hill to climb, don't think that waiting will make it smaller.
H. Jackson Brown

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Horace

It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy - no one can stop him.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Remember: [you] can't eat an elephant in one bite.
Cozy Bendesky

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin

You know from past experience that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way you never would have dreamed possible had you not been put to the test. The trouble is that in your everyday life you don't go deep enough to tap the divine mind within you.
Orison Swett Marden

Seize the day
Horace

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
Jean Toomer

I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson

You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush

Learn from everyone, copy no one.
Don Shula

Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Nigerian proverb

It is not enough to have a vision. No one gets it right the first time. Keep fighting, even when it looks like you might lose. If you don't have the strength, you can run slower, but do not ever give up. Our goals do not change, but pace and strategy are subject to adjustment all the time.
Stan Shih

Within the problem lies the solution
Milton Katselas

How To Be An Artist:
Stay Loose. Learn to watch snails. Plant impossible gardens. Invite someone dangerous to tea. Make little signs that say 'yes' and post them all over the house. Make friends with freedom and uncertainty. Look forward to dreams. Cry during movies. Swing as high as you can on a swingset, by moonlight. Cultivate moods. Refuse to be 'reponsible'. Do it for Love. Take lots of naps. Give money away. Do it now. The money will follow. Believe in magic. Laugh a lot. Celebrate every gorgeous moment. Take moonbaths. Have wild imaginings, transformative dreams, and perfect calm. Draw on the walls. Read everyday. Imagine yourself magic. Giggle with children. Listen to old people. Open up! Dive In! Be Free! Bless yourself. Drive away Fear. Play with everything. Entertain your inner child. Know you are innocent. Build a Fort with blankets. Get Wet. Hug trees. Write Love Letters!
Sark

Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is still an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you will still be heading for a star.
Willis Reed

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.
Henry Drummond

Anything is possible to the willing heart.
Toller Cranston

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Willis R. Whitney

Real discipline is when you can pick strawberries without eating any.
Doug Larson

We will either find a way, or make one.
Hannibal

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life nothing can destroy him; if he has conquered greed nothing can limit his freedom.
Buddha

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake

Every day is a fresh beginning.
Susan Coolidge

To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Chinese proverb

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

Courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford

No one knows what he can do till he tries.
Publilius Syrus

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them--a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali

They can because they think they can.
Virgil

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles

Focus on remedies, not faults.
Jack Nicklaus

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
Douglas Adams

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
Henry Ward Beecher

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.
Richard M. DeVos

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.
Susan Taylor

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.
Tyron Edwards

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.
Archibald MacLeish

As freely as the firmament embraces the world,
or the sun pours forth impartially his beams,
so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
Schiller

Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible. Creativity is a celebration of life--my celebration of life. It is a bold statement: I am here! I love life! I love me! I can be anything! I can do anything!
Joseph Zinker

Victory is not won in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.
Louis L'Amour

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
Diane Arbus

The answer is simple: if you want something very badly, you can achieve it. It may take patience, very hard work, a real struggle, and a long time, but it can be done ...
Margo Jones

It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in all periods of time.
Louis L'Amour

Corporal Perkins: I must say, Captain, I've got to admire your balls.
Captain Blackadder: Perhaps later.
Blackadder

No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.
Alan Watts

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford

If one is lucky, a single fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
Maya Angelou

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
Colin Powell

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Orison Swett Marden

Errors like straws upon the surface flow:
Who would search for pearls must dive below.
John Dryden

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

There are no secrets to success: Don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.
Colin Powell

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
Richter

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a bulldog goes after a cat - with every fiber in him tense with eagerness and determination.
C. Holman

When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go.
Carol Burnett

Nothing has power over you, but the power you give it.
Anthony Robbins

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
Garrison Keillor

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie

The rung of a ladder
was never meant to rest upon,
but only hold a man's foot
long enough to enable him
to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Henry Huxley

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
Carol Burnett

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
John W. Gardner

Trust yourself: You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
George Eliot

The impossible is often the untried.
Jim Goodwin

Purity of aspiration seems virtually prerequisite to genuine inspiration.
Ann Truitt

Our visions begin with our desires.
Audre Lorde

Don't worry about opposition. Remember, a kite rises against the wind, not with it.
Hamilton Wright Mabie

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
Georges Bernanos

Ideas cross mountains, borders and seas. They go anywhere a man can go and endure long after he is gone. Ideas are indestructible because of their very nature. There is no defense on earth against them.
Walter Goldstein

Every time one man expresses an idea, he finds ten men who thought of it before - but they only thought.
(Unknown)

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
Michael Jordan

The social dynamics of the net are a direct consequence of the fact that nobody has yet developed a Remote Strangulation Protocol.
Larry Wall

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles

Focus on remedies, not faults.
Jack Nicklaus

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
Douglas Adams

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
Henry Ward Beecher

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.
Richard M. DeVos

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.
Susan Taylor

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.
Tyron Edwards

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.
Archibald MacLeish

"One can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Lewis Carroll

Remember, a dead fish can float down stream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields

As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.
Akhenaton(?)

Scarred by a traumatic childhood experience, Dorothy of Kansas wonders why she always falls for heartless, cowardly men with no brains.
(unknown)

Do you remember the things you worried about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
Dale Carnegie

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. . . . You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Louis Nizer

Fortune and love favour the brave.
Ovid

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
Louis Nizer

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
Audre Lorde

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
Carson McCullers

You have to expect things of yourselves before you can do them.
Michael Jordan

The Aethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black-skinned and the Thracians that theirs are blue-eyed and red-haired. If only oxen and horses had hands and wanted to draw with their hands or to make the works of art that men make, then horses would draw the figures of their gods like horses, and oxen like oxen, and would make their bodies on the model of their own.
Xenophanes

Modern cryptography is nothing more than a mathematical framework for debating the implications of various paranoid delusions.
Don Alvarez

If I am for others only, who will be for me?
If I am for myself alone, what am I?
If not now, when?
Hillel

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
Indira Gandhi

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Treat your password like your toothbrush: use it regularly but don't share it with friends.
Don Alvarez