Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-- Douglas Adams
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill
A great civilization is not destroyed from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
-- Will Durant
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
-- José Martí
