It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder. -- Erik Naggum

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

But what is it good for? -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip, 1968

Functional programming is to algorithms as the ubiquitous little black dress is to women's fashion. -- Mark Tarver (of "The bipolar Lisp programmer" fame)

Are you willing to wear your white belt? -- George Leonard, Mastery.

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau