More recent Quotes:

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page"
- St. Augustine

"Life is not the amounts of breath you take, it's the moments that take your breath away"
- Will smith in Hitch

“The Perfect Camera would be akin to a perpetual motion machine, a violation of the 2nd Law Of Thermodanymics”

"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching."

"It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got."
- Sheryl Crow

...on the pursuit of happiness:

"It may well be that the way to achieve happiness is to not pursue it."

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
- Edith Wharton 


"Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly."
- Bertrand Russell 

"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond
your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon
you."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

 ...on procrastination:

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
- Benjamin Franklin 

"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give
clearer light as to what is best to be done."
- Aaron Burr 

"Never do tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
- Mark Twain 

...Learning from the Giraffe

From three different parts of Africa, three folk sayings offer the same advice:

"The word that leaves your mouth leaves your control."
- Somali folk saying

"Let your mouth be the trap of your words."
- Zambian folk saying

"The wisest animal is the giraffe: it never speaks."
- Tanzanian folk saying