“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”

        — Joseph Addison

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it “the first law of personal growth.”

        — Peter McWilliams

“English is already a fairly succinct language, but it appears to be succinctering.”

        — Steve Yegge (@Steve_Yegge)

“Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”

        — Unknown

“Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how.”

        — Unknown

“A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us.”

        — Franz Kafka

“It takes a considerable amount of effort to learn Vim. It takes twice as much to unlearn it.”

        — john2x on Hacker News

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

        — T. S. Eliot

“There is no failure. Only feedback.”

        — Robert Allen

“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

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

        — Robert Fulghum

No matter what your Chinese symbol tattoo says, I’m going to assume the translation is: “Please think I’m cool.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

        — Winston Churchill

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace”

        — Robert J. Sawyer

“Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.”

        — Andrew V. Mason

“A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.”

        — Edgar A. Shoaff

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“There are two seasons in Scotland: June and winter.”

        — Billy Connolly

“Nothing destroys a good idea faster than a mandatory consensus.”

        — Jessica Hagy #

“If the claws didn’t retract, cats would be like Velcro.”

        — Bruce Fogle

“We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.”

        — Fulton Oursler

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

        — Frederick Douglass