When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the
old home you missed but your childhood - Sam Ewing.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind - Mahatma Gandhi.
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. ... Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things. - Randy Pausch.
If you thought before that science was certain, well, that's just an
error on your part - Richard Feynman.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it - Margaret
Thatcher.
When an elderly and distinguished scientist tells you that something
is possible, he is very probably right. When he tells you that
something is impossible, he is very probably wrong - Arthur C. Clarke.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality
- Albert Einstein.
Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the
tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train - Paul Dickson.
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men
with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed -
Albert Einstein.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its
limits - Albert Einstein.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The
only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of
knowledge, experience, and ability - Henry Ford.
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love -
Albert Einstein.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World
War IV will be fought with sticks and stones - Albert Einstein.
Home is where I work and I work everywhere - Alfred Nobel.
At any rate, I am convinced that he [God] does not play dice - Albert
Einstein.
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to
your grandmother - Albert Einstein.
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about
humanity:
'Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he
sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so
anxious
about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being
that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as
if he is nevergoing to die, and then dies having never really lived.'
Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most - Mark Twain.
(my favorite.)
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have
been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to
grow. (- Shakespeare?)