I thought you had forgotten me.I have spent my life remembering you.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

Larry Wall

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

Christina Rossetti

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Friedrich Nietzsche

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain,

Adam Lindsay Gordon

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

James Brown

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

James Allen, source: http://www.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

O. J. Simpson

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

Samuel Johnson

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

Bruce Feirstein

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Dalai Lama

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

Bessie Head

When I talked, no one listened to me. But as soon as I acted I became persuasive, and I no longer find anyone incredulous.

Giosu