Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word. -- Nassim Taleb

A society that puts equality -- in the sense of equality of outcome -- ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. -- Milton Friedman (Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions, p130)

J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. -- Anatole France

I'm always happy to trade performance for readability as long as the former isn't already scarce. -- Crayz (Commentor on blog.raganwald.com)

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison

Two people should stay together if together they are better people than they would be individually. -- ?

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. ~Jim Rohn

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. ~Mike Gafka