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

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. -- Elie Wiesel

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. -- Bertrand Russell

A CS professor once explained recursion as follows: A child couldn't sleep, so her mother told her a story about a little frog, who couldn't sleep, so the frog's mother told her a story about a little bear, who couldn't sleep, so the bear's mother told her a story about a little weasel... who fell asleep. ...and the little bear fell asleep; ...and the little frog fell asleep; ...and the child fell asleep. -- everything2.com

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -- Ferris Bueller

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ~Colin R. Davis

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford

You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb