Happiness is as a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp, but which if
you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to
labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson
In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us
with a certain alienated majesty.
-- Emerson
May you live all the days of your life.
-- Johnathan Swift
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet
conscience.
Two Concepts of Liberty (1958)
-- Sir Isiah Berlin
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for battle.
-- Corinthians I Chapter 14, verse 8
"You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring
them."
-- Ursula K. LeGuin
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Against one perfect moment, the centuries beat in vain.
-- Terry Pratchet
The flowering
moments of the mind drop half their petals in our speech.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away".
-- Philip K. Dick
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
"You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when
you can teach, but certain when you can program."
-- Alan J. Perlis