“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”

-- Francis Bacon

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Sun Tzu

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

William Penn

"To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind

the whole world burns and sparkles with light."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Just as the tumultuous chaos of a thunderstorm brings a nurturing rain that allows life to flourish, so too in human affairs times of advancement are preceded by times of disorder. Success comes to those who can weather the storm.”
-- I Ching No. 3

"The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement."

-- William Arthur Ward

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln

“I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.”

-- Stephen Covey

"Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."

-- Mary Little