“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

        — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“I named my kitten Rose: fur soft as a petal, claws sharper than thorns.”

        — Astrid Alauda

“He was jeopardising his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”

        — Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”

        — Erin Major

“I’m becoming increasingly convinced that the 21st century is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick.”

        — Jason Gorman (@jasongorman)

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

        — Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”

        — Henry Ford

“The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt till they are too strong to be broken.”

        — Samuel Johnson

“Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.”

        — Andrew V. Mason

“The (computer) mouse is probably the narrowest straw you could try and suck all of human expression through.”

        — Joy Mountford

“Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”

“All glory comes from daring to begin.”

        — Eugene F. Ware

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

        — Samuel Beckett

“Eagles may soar high, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.”

        — John Benfield

“My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.”

        — Charles Schulz

“Often we don’t really need advice or guidance from each other. Sometimes we just need a friend to deposit courage into our soul.”

        — Mike Foster

“Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.”

        — John Henry Cardinal Newman

“We want structures that serve people, not people serving structures.”

        — May 1968 Graffiti #

“Like I’ve always said, love wouldn’t be blind if the braille weren’t so damned much fun.”

        — Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon

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

        — George Bernard Shaw

“And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”

        — Erica Jong