some good thoughts

• Calamities are of two kinds : misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
  

  -Ambrose Bierce

  
  
  
• Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
  

  -James Russell Lowell

  
  
  
• It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
  

  -William Whitelaw

  
  
  
• After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
  

  -Cynthia Ozick

  
  
  
• If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison and destroy.
  

  -Ralph Ellison

  
  
  
• I believe talent is like elecricity.We do not understand electricity. We use it.Elecricity makes no judgement.You can plug into it, and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it...I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.
  

  -Maya Angleou

  
  
  
• A child becomes an adult when he realizes(that) he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
  

  -Thomas Szasz

  
  
  
• Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation, because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
  

  -A proverb

  
  
  
• While I thought that I was learning to live, I have been learning how to die.
  

  -Leonardo De Vinci