Change doesn't come in nickels and dimes. It comes in dedication and sweat.

~ Toni Sorenson

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason. 

~ Isaac Newton, physicist, mathematician, and philosopher (1642-1727) 

Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. 

~  John Morley, statesman and writer (1838-1923) 

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. 

~ Napoleon Hill

Don’t be threatened by people smarter than you. 

~ Howard Schultz

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. 

~ Calvin Coolidge

If you ask me what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.

~ George Burns

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been." 

~ John Greenleaf Whittier, poet (1807-1892) 

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. 

~ George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952) 

I believe that life can go on forever. It takes a million years to evolve a new species, ten million for a new genus, one hundred million for a class, a billion for a phylum -- and that's usually as far as your imagination goes. In a billion years, it seems, intelligent life might be as different from humans as humans are from insects. But what would happen in another ten billion years? It's utterly impossible to conceive of ourselves changing as drastically as that, over and over again. All you can say is, on that kind of time scale the material form that life would take is completely open. To change from a human being to a cloud may seem a big order, but it's the kind of change you'd expect over billions of years. 

~ Freeman Dyson, physicist (b. 1923) 

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. 

~ Hector Berlioz, composer (1803-1869) 

You shouldn't focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions. 

~ Steve Case, co-founder of AO

There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.

~ Jason Fried, founder of 37signal.

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. 

~ John Milton, poet (1608-1674)

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. 

~ Louis de Bernieres, novelist (b. 1954) 

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. 

~ Christina Rossetti, poet (1830-1894) 

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. 

~ Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902) 

A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. 

~ Joseph Conrad, novelist (1857-1924) 

The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life. 

~ Seneca

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

~  Mark Twain

To see a world in a grain of sand,

And a heaven in a wild flower, 

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour. 

~  William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827) 

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. 

~ Desmond Tutu, clergyman (b. 1931)

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. 

~ Arundhati Roy, writer and activist (b. 1961)

P.S . I am not a great supporter of Arundhati Roy.

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.

~ Bob Proctor

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. 

~ Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. 

~ Nadine Gordimer, novelist, Nobel laureate (1923-2014) 

Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like paté. 

~ Margaret Atwood, novelist and poet (b. 1939) 

P.S - Chicken Liver paté is one of my favorite dish.

Without gratitude and appreciation for what you already have, you’ll never know true fulfillment.

~ Tony Robbins

We are a landscape of all we have seen. 

~ Isamu Naguchi, sculptor and architect (1904-1988)

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power. 

~ P.J. O'Rourke, writer (b. 1947)

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. 

~ Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894) 

Patience is also a form of action. 

~ Auguste Rodin, sculptor (1840-1917) 

A brother is a friend given by nature. 

~ Gabriel Legouve, writer (1807-1903

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best. 

~ Henry van Dyke, poet (1852-1933) 

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. 

~ Albert Camus, writer and philosopher (1913-1960) 

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. 

~ Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (1809-1865

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. 

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (1850-1919) 

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the one who sold it. 

~ Will Rogers, humorist (1879-1935) 

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last. 

~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680) 

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

~ Mark Twain

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

~ Dr. Seuss

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a heaven that it shows itself cloddish. 

~ Evelyn Waugh, novelist (1903-1966) 

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. 

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945) 

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

~ Mark Twain

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. 

~ William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616) 

All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to be noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It's a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.

~ Doris Lessing, novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel laureate (1919-2013) 

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals, the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great creative scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned if at all. 

~ Martin Gardner, mathematician and writer (1914-2010) 

Readers may be divided into four classes: 

1. Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 

2. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 

3. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 

4. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also. 

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic (1772-1834) 

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

~ John Keats

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. 

~ Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist (1915-2005) 

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900) 

To be nobody but myself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. 

~ E.E. Cummings, poet (1894-1962) 

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way. 

~ Alice Childress, playwright, author, and actor (1916-1994)

Imagine there's no country, 

It isn't hard to do.

Nothing to kill or die for,  And no religion, too. 

Imagine all the people 

Living life in peace. 

~ John Lennon, musician (1940-1980)

Someone once told me that 'time' is a predator that stalks us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because it will never come again.

~ Jean-Luc Picard

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money. 

~ Alanis Obomsawin, filmmaker (b. 1932) 

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. 

~  Gore Vidal, author (1925-2012)

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. 

~ Jimmy Carter, 39th US President, Nobel laureate (b. 1924) 

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster. 

~ Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher, educator, and author (1902-2001) 

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. 

~ Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928) 

There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. 

~ Enrico Fermi, physicist and Nobel laureate (1901-1954)

No battle is ever won, he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. 
~ William Faulkner, novelist (1897-1962) 

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. 

~ Horace Walpole, novelist and essayist (1717-1797) 

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. 

~ Walter Lippmann, journalist (1889-1974)

Results are gained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

~ Peter Drucker

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. 

~ Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910) 

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

~ Peter Drucker

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. 

~ Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784) 

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

~ Peter Drucker

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for. 

~ Laurence J. Peter, educator and author (1919-1990) 

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. 

~ Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, aphorist (1613-1680) 

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. 

~ Jessica Mitford, author, journalist, and civil rights activist (1917-1996) 

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. 

~ Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910)

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world. 

~ Claude Pepper, senator and representative (1900-1989) 

Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves. 

~ John Danforth, priest, ambassador, senator (b. 1936) 

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. 

~ Ivan Illich, philosopher and priest (1926-2002) 

If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit. 

~ Robert Brault, writer (b. 1938) 

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working. 

~ Albert Einstein 

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. 

~ Edith Cavell, nurse and humanitarian (1865-1915) 

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. 

~ John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704) 

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your ( our ) search for happiness will never end. ~ Bob Marley

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

~ Calvin Coolidge

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. 

~ Martin Amis, novelist (b. 1949) 

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. 

~ Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (1920-2012)

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

~ Helen Keller

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. 

~ AA Milne author (1882-1956) 

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots. 

~ HP Lovecraft, short-story writer and novelist (1890-1937)

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. 

~ Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971) 

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. 

~ Vladimir Nabokov, novelist (1899-1977) 

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. 

~ Walter Scott, novelist and poet (1771-1832) 

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

~  Romain Rolland (Roman Scholar)

 

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. 

~ Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899) 

Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right. 

~ Henry Ford

No amount of belief makes something a fact. 

~ James Randi, magician and skeptic (b. 1928) 

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. 

~ Karl Popper, philosopher and a professor (1902-1994) 

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. 

~ Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and novelist (1850-1893)

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. 

~ Herman Melville, novelist and poet (1819-1891) 

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. 

~ J.K. Rowling, author (b. 1965) 

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

~ C. Northcote Parkinson, author and historian (1909-1993)

There's nothing impossible in this world for a heart full of desires.

~ Abraham Lincoln

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. 

~ Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971) 

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race, or his holy cause. A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. 

~ Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)

So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today. 

~ Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) 

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. 

~ Edward Hopper, painter (1882-1967) 

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (1811-1863) 

There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind. 

~ Hannah Senesh, poet, playwright, and paratrooper (1921-1944) 

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. 

~ Kathleen Norris, novelist and columnist (1880-1966) was a popular American 

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

 ~ Winston Churchill 

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. 

~ Earl Nightingale

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong.

~ Peter Drucker

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. 

~ Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922)

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

~ Jorge Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986)

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. 

~ Carlo Dossi, author and diplomat (1849-1910) 

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

~ Franz Kafka, novelist (1883-1924)

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.

~ Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice (1908-1993)

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

~ George Sand [pen name of Amantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin], novelist (1804-1876)

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.

~ Helen Adams Keller, lecturer and author (1880-1968)

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

~ Pearl S. Buck, Nobelist novelist (1892-1973)

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

~ George Orwell, writer (1903-1950)

Money, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. 

~ Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914) 

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. 

~ Salman Rushdie, writer (b. 1947

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. 

~  Ancient Indian Proverb

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. 

~ Mark Twain

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. 

~ Jim Rohn

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His. 

~ Roger Ebert, film-critic (1942-2013)

Just as appetite comes by eating so work brings inspiration. 

~ Igor Stravinsky, composer (1882-1971) 

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. 

~ William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939) 

I believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change and make way for the respect and admiration of all women, who bear their burdens without complaint or a lot of pompous words! 

~ Anne Frank, diarist (1929-1945) 

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. 

~ Arthur Christopher Benson

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men. 

~ Alice Walker, poet and novelist (b. 1944) 

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. 

~ Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel laureate (1915-2005) 

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. 

 ~ Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870) 

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. 

~ Aleksandr Pushkin, poet, novelist, and playwright (1799-1837

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die. 

~ Federico García Lorca, poet, playwright, and painter (1898-1936) 

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. 

~ Susan B Anthony, reformer and suffragist (1820-1906) 

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. 

~ Allen Ginsberg, poet (1926-1997) 

It's not about what you have or what you don't have, it's more about your journey and your perspective that's important to people. 

~ Pharrell Williams, singer-songwriter.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. 

~ Ben Hecht, screenwriter, playwright, novelist, director, and producer (1894-1964) 

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. 

~ John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963) 

After doing five selfies with people this morning before 8 am on my morning run I've come to the conclusion that the autograph is dead.

~ Shane Warne, forme Australian cricketer

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

~ Maya Angelou ( 1928 - 2014 )

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. 

~ Lawrence M. Krauss, theoretical physicist (b. 1954) 

Never cut what you can untie. 

~ Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824) 

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

~ Alan Watts

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. 

~ Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (1859-1930) 

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. 

~ Alexander Pope, poet (1688-1744) 

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. 

~ John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873) 

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. 

~ Lorraine Hansberry, playwright and painter (1930-1965) 

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be. 

~ Studs Terkel, author and broadcaster (1912-2008) 

Your vision becomes clear when you look inside your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. 

~ Carl Jung

I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism. 

~ Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister (1898-1978) 

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

~  Erica Jong 

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun. 

~ Katharine Hepburn, actress (1907-2003) 

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. 

~ Charles Simic, poet (b. 1938) 

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. 

~ Thomas Pynchon, writer (b. 1937) 

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. 

~ Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941) 

Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration. 

~ Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939) 

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

~ Karl A. Menninger

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood. 

~ Benjamin Spock, pediatrician and author (1903-1998) 

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. 

~ Joseph Addison, writer (1672-1719) 

There is a rumor going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist. 

~ Terry Pratchett, novelist (b. 1948) 

You only have to do a very few things right in your life, So as long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

~ Warren Buffett

I don't mind that you think slowly but I do mind that you are publishing faster than you think. 

~ Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel laureate (1900-1958) 

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. 

~ Anthony Trollope, novelist (1815-1882) 

Myth: we have to save the earth. Frankly, the earth doesn't need to be saved. Nature doesn't give a hoot if human beings are here or not. The planet has survived cataclysmic and catastrophic changes for millions upon millions of years. Over that time, it is widely believed, 99 percent of all species have come and gone while the planet has remained. Saving the environment is really about saving our environment - making it safe for ourselves, our children, and the world as we know it. If more people saw the issue as one of saving themselves, we would probably see increased motivation and commitment to actually do so. 

~ Robert M. Lilienfeld, management consultant and author (b. 1953) and William L. Rathje, archaeologist and author (b. 1945)