In God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me? -- David (Psalm 56:4)

The wonderful and frustrating thing about understanding yourself is that nobody can do it for you. -- BetterExplained.com

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life. -- Donald Campbell

Getting back to failing early, I've learned it's important to completely fail. Get fired. Shoot the project, then burn its corpse. Melt the CVS repository and microwave the backup CDs. When things go wrong, I've often tried to play the hero from start to finish. Guess what? Some projects are doomed no matter what. Some need skills I don't possess. And some need a fresh face. -- Reginald Braithwaite

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao­Tzu

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~Tony Robbins

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale

It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair