Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

If for a tranquil mind you seek,
These things observe with care:
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how, and when and where.

Anonymous

He who refuses to obey cannot command.

Kenyan Proverb

The world to a blind man is his touch. The world to a stupid man is his mouth. The world to a great man is his vision.

Paul Harvey

A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

Remember, nothing that's good works by itself, just to please you. You have to make the damn thing work.

Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954