"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."

-- Richard Feynman

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"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."

-- Arthur C. Clarke

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"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."

-- Louis Pasteur

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"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."

-- Henry Ford

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"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."

-- Jack London

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"One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations."

-- Steve Allen

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"When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

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"How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!"

-- Anne Frank

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"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."

-- St. Augustine

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