If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
--A. Maslow

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
--Thomas Edison

You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event -- it is a habit.
--Aristotle

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
--Mike Schmoker

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
--Maurice Maeterlink

Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
--William Strunk Jr.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I've found it!), but "That's funny...".
--Isaac Asimov

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
--Aldous Huxley