Some quotes I have been collecting. From the usual sources… email lists, friends, etc.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing softeneth the Arrogance of our Nature like a Mixture of some Frailties. It is by them that we are best told, that we must not strike too hard upon others because we ourselves do so often deserve blows. They pull our Rage by the sleeve and whisper Gentleness to us in our censures.

— Halifax

The thing is this- we have incidents happening here all the time.

— Department of Energy spokesman at Hanford, Washington, on why no announcement was made on a leak of radioactive material

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

— Thomas Jefferson

You may know for a certainty that if your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you; for work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it.

— George C. Hubb