On the Difference between Optimism and Pessimism

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? - Rene Descartes

On Wisdom.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn. - George Santayana

Seasons.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. - Albert Camus

Possibilities

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke

On Tact.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. - Sir Isaac Newton.

A Timely Word of Warning.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire.

Making Crazy Pay.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. --  Hunter S. Thompson.

A Grand Irony.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road -- Stephen Hawking.

On Learning.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --  Douglas Adams

A Timely Thought.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell