"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too."

Voltaire (1694-1778)

"It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere."

Voltaire (1694-1778)

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle

"No, try not.....Do or do not... There is no try."

Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow and learn as if you were to live forever."

Gandhi

"...You are the bows (parents) from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable."

Khalil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

"Creativity means believing you have greatness."

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)

"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but rather to think what no one has yet thought, about that which everyone sees."

Erwin Schroedinger

"It seems to be one of the fundamental features of nature that fundamental physical laws are described in terms of mathematical theory of great beauty and power, needing quite a high standard of mathematics for one to understand it. You may wonder: Why is nature constructed along these lines? One can only answer that our present knowledge seems to show that it is so constructed. We simply have to accept it. One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe. Our feeble attempts at mathematics enable us to understand a bit of the universe, and as we proceed to develop higher and higher mathematics we can hope to understand the universe better."

Paul Dirac (1902-1984)

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams".

Eleanor Roosevelt

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today"

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The Earth is the cradle of mankind but one cannot live in the cradle forever."

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

"What is the most important thing a man needs if he wants to build?... The will to do it."

Von Braun

"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"True greatness is expressed through simplicity."

De Sanctis

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost,
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost,
From ashes a fire shall be woken,
Light from the shadows shall spring,
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be King."

Aragorn son of Arathorn, heir of Kings

J.R.R Tolkien, Lord of the Rings

"End?, no, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one we all must take."

Gandalf, from the film the Return of The King

"Farewell, my brave Hobbits. My work is now finished. Here at last, on the shores of the sea, comes the end of our Fellowship. I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil."

J.R.R Tolkien, Lord of the Rings

Frodo says of the Enemy's minions, "I think one of his spies would --- well, seem fairer and feel fouler, if you understand." "I see," laughed Strider. "I look foul and feel fair. Is that it?"

J.R.R Tolkien, Lord of the Rings

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent."

Calvin Coolidge

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

Mark Twain

"A problem well stated is a problem half solved."

Charles F Kettering

"There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true."

Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

Charles Chaplin

"Work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt, And dance like no one's watching. Happiness is a journey, not a destination."

Crystal Boyd

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

"Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared."

Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

"Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes."

Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

"Patience is a tree whose root is bitter, but its fruit is very sweet"

Canadian Proverb

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Abraham Lincoln (1809 -1865)

"Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface."

The Unix philosophy: Doug McIlroy (1932 - )

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

"I don’t think we should go to the moon. I think maybe we should send some politicians up there."

Ron Paul (1935 - )

"Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets."

Matthew 7:12

"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?."

Psalm 27:1

"God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands."

Acts 17:24

"Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things."

Romans 2:1

"But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

2 Peter 3:8

"Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints."

Ephesians 6:13-18

"I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with my eye."

Psalm 32:8