“No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim.”

        — Russian Proverb

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

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

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

        — Brent Snook (@brentsnook)

“Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning.”

        — Unknown

“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.”

        — Raymond Hull

“It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren’t so handy in the refrigerator.”

        — Hugh Allen

“Music is an outburst of the soul.”

        — Frederick Delius

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.”

        — Sydney Smith

“Start every day with a smile and get it over with.”

        — W. C. Fields

“The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.”

        — Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart

“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”

        — Naguib Mahfouz

“It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say ‘I don’t know’.”

        — W. Somerset Maugham

“God is good, but never dance in a small boat.”

        — Irish Saying

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”

        — Hilary Cooper

“I have gained and lost the same ten pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have déjà vu.”

        — Jane Wagner

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”

        — Tom Clancy

“Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.”

        — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“No individual raindrop considers itself responsible for the flood.”

        — Unknown

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”

        — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity”

        — George Bernard Shaw

“The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.”

        — Henry Van Dyke