We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

        — Aristotle

“Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.”

        — William Safire

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.”

        — Billy Wilder

“It’s not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It’s what you do with your life that counts.”

        — Millard Fuller

“No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.”

        — W. A. Nance

“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.”

        — Jean Baptiste Colbert

“The liberation of humanity is all or nothing.”

        — May 1968 Graffiti #

“The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”

        — John Ruskin

“Cleaning code does NOT take time. NOT cleaning code does take time.”

        — Uncle Bob Martin (@unclebobmartin)

“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”

        — Josh Billings

“Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working as soon as you open Windows”

        — Unknown

“Don’t judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try.”

        — Unknown

“Decorate yourself from the inside out.”

        — Terri Guillemets

“Too much software productivity is measured by how far the bullet is from the gun, rather than how close it is to the target.”

        — Richard Dalton (@richardadalton)

“You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.”

        — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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

        — Lee Grant

“We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?”

        — Dorothe Deluzy

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”

        — C. S. Lewis

“Don’t get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.”

        — Kathryn Carpenter

“Treat others as ends, never as means.”

        — Dag Hammerskjold

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

        — Scott Adams

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”

        — Garrison Keillor