"It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it." - Dale Carnegie

"If you’re the GM, it’s not your job to make sure people have fun." - Alexander Macris

"Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd." - Peter Abelard

Listening to one of my favorite bands from the mid aughts. While they only released two albums, The Mirror Reveals spent a lot of time in my CD player. If you've never listened and have a love for ethereal music given them a listen.

"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine." - Morris West

"The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth." - Peter Abelard

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between." - C. S. Lewis

"A year from now you may wish you had started today." - Karen Lamb

“Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature.” - John Milton

"Whatever the reason, running a role-playing game by the numbers is a crime akin to serving chips without salsa: Violators should be taken out and shot." - Alexander Macris

"If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman." - Margaret Thatcher

"We want to be reading stuff we can discuss with other people. The loneliest reading experience is to be in love with a new book and have no one to discuss it with." - M. C. A. Hogarth

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention." - Kahil Gibran

"If you’re afraid of what strong men will do, you should be very afraid of what weak men will do." - Glenn Harlan Reynolds

"Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible." - Larry Wall

"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter." - Eric S. Raymond

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Benard Shaw

"Find the most talented person the room, and if it is not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful." - Harold Ramis

"Complain about the way other people make software by making software." - Andre Torrez

"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality." - Les Brown

"I am a programmer. On my 1040 form, that is what I put down as my occupation. As a programmer, I write programs." - Ken Thompson, father of Unix

"As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock." - Tracy Ullman

"Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter." - Stan Kelly-Bootle

"Friends live the lives we don't have the aptitude for, or taste, or courage. What matters is that they live an alternative to one's own life." - Phillip Lopate

"Scars remind us where we've been. They don't have to dictate where we're going." - David Rossi in "Criminal Minds"

"You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big." - Andrew Carnegie

“You don’t talk dirty to make him hot. You 'talk dirty' to communicate what you need.” - Nina Hartley

"In the end, what have we to exchange that matters, except stories of grace and courage, laughter and love?" - Brian Doyle

"If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing." - Margaret Thatcher

"The only one who can tell you "you can't win" is you and you don't have to listen." - Jessica Ennis