something to ponder over... 
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last
mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance
to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing
without work."
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
But, in practice, there is."
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to
have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually
right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion
dollars."
- J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world
she wants, rather than to create it herself."
- Anais Nin (1903-1977)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't
work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
- Vince Lombardi
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way
down."
- Jimmy Durante
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him
absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your
eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the
belief that one's work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
