Life's but a walking shadow

Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

-William Shakespeare

The principal goal of education

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Jean Piaget

Success

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome

Sit under a tree with a picnic basket

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter

~Roy Lichtenstein

And whoever disbelieves in God

And whoever disbelieves in God and his angels and his books and his messengers and the last day, he indeed strays far away

Be yourself.

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off."

Donald Rumsfeld