The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. Abraham Lincoln

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950)

"grammatical mistakes are like disturbing noise that disrupts a reader", Prof Lennart Björk (12 09 2007), Göteborgs University

If you do not change, you will end up in the direction you are heading. ~Lao Tzu

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“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”

Albert (the one)

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right. ~Clive James

"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle." Ken Hakuta

Success is getting what you want.Happiness is wanting what you get. Dave Gardner

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

Robin: "If we close our eyes, we can't see anything."

Batman: "A sound observation, Robin."

"There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent"

Leo Tolstoy

"Be noble, and the nobleness that lies

In other men, sleeping, but never dead,

Will rise in majesty to meet thine own."

James Russell Lowell

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs,

even though checkered by failure, than to take with those poor spirits

who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray

twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat".

Theodore Roosevelt.

I am playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order.

• Eric Morecombe

Kind words can be short and easy to speak,but the echos are truly endless. Mother Teresa

It is better to die for an idea that will live,than to live for an idea that will die. Steve Biko

"If you come here to help me, then you are wasting your time. But if you come here because your liberation is bound up in mine, then let us begin." ~ Lily Walker, Australian aboriginal women's leader

"Strive for excellence, not perfection."

8. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Leadership is action, not position."

Donald H. McGannon

"Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day."

Will Durant.

"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care"

Don Swartz

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

~ Margaret Mead

"Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world."

~ Howard Zinn

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.

Thomas Jefferson

"It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for."

Mary Waldrop.