"The essence of magic is simplicity", N.A.

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity", Albert Einstein

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. And try to love the questions themselves", Rainer Maria Rilke

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home", Ken Olson, Pres., Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination", Roy Goodman

"He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance", Ling Po

"Common sense is as rare as genius", Emerson

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance", Oscar Wilde

"Our patience will achieve more than our force", Edmund Burke

"If we had no faults, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing them in others", La Rochefoucauld

"It's a miracle that curiosity survives formal education", Albert Einstein

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow, it empties today of strength", Corrie ten Boom

"Never cut what you can untie", Joseph Joubert

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world", Helen Keller

"The reason we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may hear more and speak less", Zeno

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alife", Elbert Hubbard

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do", Thomas Jefferson

"Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope", Josh Billings

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it", Oscar Wilde

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind", Albert Einstein

"Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital", Aaron Levenstein

"The wise speak when they have something to say, the fools speak when they have to say something", anonymous

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes", Oscar Wilde

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory", Corneille

"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation", H.H. Munro (Saki)