The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. (Bertrand Russell)

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde)

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. (Sir Winston Churchill)

There’s a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I’m not there yet. (Randy Pausch)

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. (Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (Albert Einstein)

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. (Plato)

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools.Let’s start with typewriters. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad. (Salvador Dali)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Thomas Jefferson)

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance. (George Bernard Shaw)

The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’. (unknown)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Thomas Jefferson)

Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

Facts are the enemy of truth. (Don Quixote – Man of La Mancha)

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. (Anais Nin)

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time. (Vince Lombardi)

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. (Rene Descartes, Discours de la Methode)

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. (Walt Disney)

It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts. (G. B. Burgin)

If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars. (J. Paul Getty)

His ignorance is encyclopedic (Abba Eban)

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. (Paul Erdos)

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. (Albert Einstein)

Dancing is silent poetry. (Simonides)

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King Jr.)