Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams (1957 - ), 'The Dilbert Principle'

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Caltech commencement address, 1974

Mostly, I try to remember a quote from William Gibson: "I suspect I have spent just about exactly as much time actually writing as the average person my age has spent watching television, and that, as much as anything, may be the real secret here."

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

Brendan Francis

Modern man's loss of a sense of being sinful doesn't spring from a feeling that he is inherently good. Rather, it springs from his feeling of being inherently ineffectual.

Brendan Francis

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

Brendan Francis

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Francis

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

Brendan Francis

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

Brendan Francis

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

Brendan Francis

"You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about."
-Roald Dahl

"Often the hands with solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
-Carl Jung

"Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment"
- Horace

"Humor is just another defense against the universe."
- Mel Brooks