“The worst thing to be is successful as someone else.”

        — Jay-Z

“If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn’t be human. You’d be a game-show host.”

        — Heathers

“It’s good to shut up sometimes.”

        — Marcel Marceau

“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.”

        — Mark Twain

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

        — Ernest Hemingway

“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.”

        — Pearl Bailey

“If at first you don’t succeed, that’s one data point.”

        — xkcd by Randall Munroe

A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.”

        — Mencius

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”

        — Josephine Hart, Damage

“Be curious, not judgemental.”

        — Walt Whitman

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”

        — Roger Miller

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

        — Japanese Proverb

“If the guy next to you is swearing like a wharfie he’s probably a billionaire. Or, just conceivably, a wharfie.”

        — Australian observation

“His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.”

        — William McAdoo

“Never be afraid to try, remember… Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.”

        — Unknown

“Talk doesn’t cook rice.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“You never truly understand concurrency until you’ve had your second child”

        — Old Erlang saying

“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.”

        — William Penn

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

        — Sacha Guitry

“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”

        — Howard Scott

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.”

        — Lucille Ball

“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

        — Plato