If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. -- Rush (Freewill)

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life. -- Donald Campbell

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C.S. Lewis

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller

That is one of the most distinctive differences between school and the real world: there is no reward for putting in a good effort. In fact, the whole concept of a "good effort" is a fake idea adults invented to encourage kids. It is not found in nature. -- Paul Graham

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

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at. –Jesse Owens

You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing. ~Philippos

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

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