You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. -- Pablo Picasso

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao­Tzu

I feel it is everybodies obligation to reach for the best in themselves and use that for the interest of mankind. -- Corneluis (comment on 'Are you going to change the world? (Really?)')

Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. (I have made this letter so long only because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.) -- Blaise Pascal (Lettres Provinciales)

No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side. If you keep waiting, it will comme up. -- Randy Pausch

Students should be evaluated on how well they can achieve the goals they strived to achieve within a realistic context. Students need to learn to do things, not know things. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

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