A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

We are the sum of our behaviours; excellence therefore is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle.

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

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. -- Seneca

A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a yes merely uttered to please or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Gandhi

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are always cocksure and the intelligent are always filled with doubt. -- Bertrand Russell

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Anonymous

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale

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