Some great quotes ................

Believe in yourself for if you don't,
it will be hard for others to believe in you

Say not, `I have found the truth,' but rather, `I have
found a truth.'
-Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do
not readily suspect them in others.
-Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw
it into the nest.
-Swedish proverb

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't
the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
-Robert Benchley, humorist, drama critic, and actor
(1889-1945)

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful
to us than the injury that provokes it.
-Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
-Joseph Joubert, French moralist and essayist
(1754-1824)

An unjust peace is better than a war for justice.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by
policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has
nothing more to say?
-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-) [Bluebeard, 1987]

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able
to cash in on the experience.
-Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was
right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
-Charles Wadsworth

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to
do the unnecessary three times as fast.
-Peter Drucker (1909-)

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an
ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the
ocean does not become dirty.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well
used brings happy death.
-Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more
concerned to know what his grandson will be.
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Mahatma Gandi

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be
happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a
philosopher.
-Socrates

If I can stop one Heart from breaking / I shall not
live in vain / If I can ease one Life the Aching / Or
cool one Pain / Or help one fainting Robin / Unto his
Nest again / I shall not live in Vain.
-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

I would rather vote for something I want and not get
it than vote for something I do not want, and get it.
-Eugene Debs

Do not wait for ideal circumstances,
nor for the best opportunities;
they will never come.
- Janet Erskine Stuart

My lord, burn in me the sacred fire of "doubt", so
that it may burn away every "certainty" that others
have imprinted on me. And then, from its ashes raise
the light of certainty, clear of every fog.
-Dr. Ali Shariati

Whoever knows his own self knows his Lord.
-Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but
never the one with whom you have wept.
-Khalil Gibran

A man can be free without being great, but no man can
be great without being free.
-Khalil Gibran

I took a speed reading course and read `War and Peace'
in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
-Woody Allen, author, actor (1935- )

A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if
you hold it close enough to your eye.
-Samuel Grafton

What is to give light must endure burning.
-Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist,
Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
-Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) [The Devil's Dictionary]

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the
cancer cell.
-John Nichols, novelist (1940- )

Computer Science is no more about computers than
astronomy is about telescopes.
-Edsger W. Dijkstra, computer science professor

Men have become the tools of their tools.
-Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author
(1817-1862)

Experience is the comb life gives you after you lose
your hair.
-Judith Stearn

It is dangerous to be right when the government is
wrong.
-Voltaire (1694-1778)

It is curious that physical courage should be so
common in the world and moral courage so rare.
-Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)

In theory, there is no difference between theory and
practice; In practice, there is.
-Chuck Reid

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is
better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
-Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun
is in having lots to do and not doing it.
-Mary Little

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are
loved.
-Victor Hugo, poet, novelist, and dramatist
(1802-1885)

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser
than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a
knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our
ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate
more lovingly, our own.
-Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978)

The nice thing about standards is that there are so
many of them to choose from.
-Andrew S. Tanenbaum

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes
the hand bleed that uses it.
-Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author,
songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel
laureate (1861-1941)

It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for
which we are accountable.
-Moliere, actor and playwright (1622-1673)

Mathematics is a comb on the chaotic hair of the
nature.
-Dr. Hossein Elaahi Qomshei, contemporary Iranian
Philosopher

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent
injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail
to protest.
-Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (1928- )

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject
acceptance.
-- Ray Bradbury, advice to writers

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept
and the hours are lost.
--Murphy's Laws on Technology

Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they
appear.

To be without some of the things you want is an
indispensable part of happiness.
--Bertrand Russell

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but
not simpler.
--Albert Einstein, Reader's Digest, Oct. 1977

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
--Naguib Mahfouz

Wisdom has two parts: 1) having a lot to say, and 2)
not saying it.

April Fools' Day is the day upon which we are reminded
of what we are on the other three hundred and
sixty-four.
--Mark Twain

All generalizations, with the possible exception of
this one, are false.
--Kurt Godel

Only two things are infinite, the universe, and human
stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
--Albert Einstine in The one, the only.

Politicians are like diapers: they both need to be
changed frequently and for the same reason.

There are 10 types of people: those who know binary
and those who don't.

To be or not to be
is not my dilemma
To break away from both worlds
is not bravery
To be unaware of the wonders
that exist in me
that
is real madness.
--Rumi

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of
the people who are evil, but because of the people who
don't do anything about it.
--Albert Einstein

Forgiveness is not an occasional art; it is a
permanent attitude.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.