Tidbits & Quotes: February 2006

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather -- all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

If you're enthusiastic about the things you're working on, people will come ask you to do interesting things.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the
world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.