My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Mary Wollstonecraft

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Thomas Jefferson

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Danish proverb

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

James A. Michener

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

Richard P. Feynman

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Russell Baker

It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

William Hazlitt

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.

Tahir Shah

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Mary Pickford

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Jan Van Ruysbroeck

When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

Abraham Lincoln