“Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.”

        — Clarence Darrow

“Failure is an event, never a person.”

        — William D. Brown

“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”

        — Hunter S. Thompson

“The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.”

        — Paul Fix

“Nobody realises that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

        — Albert Camus

“Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.”

        — William Stafford

“I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand.”

        — Charles M. Schulz

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

        — Albert Einstein

“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.”

        — P. J. O’Rourke

“Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.”

        — Agnes Allen

“Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.”

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“It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.”

        — William Ralph Inge

“The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.”

        — P. J. O’Rourke

“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”

        — Abraham Joshua Heschel

“I don’t mind suffering is silence, as long as everyone knows I’m suffering in silence."

        — Boho the hippopotamus, from the Jungle Doctor story, “Sweet and Sour Hippo”

“I am in favour of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies’ hands - after all, one must start somewhere.”

        — Sacha Guitry

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”

        — Richard Buckminster Fuller

“It’s easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.”

        — Millard Fuller

“If you think hiring a professional is expensive, wait till you hire an amateur.”

        — Red Adair

“Being a creator of software systems is like being a god. Only without the omnipotence, omnipresence or omniscience.”

        — Brent Snook (@brentsnook)

“When C++ is your hammer, everything starts to look like your thumb.”

        — Amazon interview candidate

“Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.”

        — Rabindranath Tagore

“Socialising on the internet is to socialising, what reality TV is to reality.”

        — Aaron Sorkin

“I’ve been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.”

        — Lee Grant

“Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward.”

        — Soren Kierkegaard

“Change is inevitable. Unless you need it to feed the parking meter. Then it’s nowhere to be found.”

        — Caprice Crane

“Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.”

        — P. J. O’Rourke

“Capslock does not make technical support want to help you more.”

        — Lindsay (Trampoline Sept 2010)

“Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.”

        — Helen Hays

“Don’t worry that children never listen to you, worry that they are always watching you.”

        — Robert Fulghum