A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

A fool and his money are soon elected -- Will Rogers

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular -- Adlai Stevenson.

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera, keep her from drowning them at birth. -- Robert A Heinlein.

Give me coffee to change the things that I can, and wine to accept those I cannot.

God gives burdens, also shoulders -- Yiddish proverb.

I'm single by choice. Not *my* choice, but...

If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got.

In the beginning God created man in His image, and Man has never ceased to return the favour -- ? G. K. Chesterton

It's not how high you fly that matters or how fast you go, but how well you bounce.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Never believe everything you think.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right -- Isaac Asimov pp Salvor Hardin.

Nine women can't make a baby in a month.

No amount of belief can create a fact, no amount of disbelief can invalidate one.

Panic calmly.

There are more aircraft under the ocean than there are submarines in the sky.

Tradition is tending the flame, not worshipping the ashes -- Gustav Mahler.

Whatever doesn't kill you, gives you a lot of unhealthy coping mechanisms and a really dark sense of humour.

Wind is free, sails ain't.