The Most beautiful thing in Music is Silence 
                                     -- Wagner 

  "The mountains tell you, quite ruthlessly, who you
are and what you are. Mountaineering is a game where you can't cheat.
When you're on a long climb, what counts is not your heart or your
lungs or your fitness or your technique so much as your inner motivation,
your ability to withstand the cold, tiredness and solitude; more than
that, what's important is your determination, cool nerves and knowing
how to make the right choices."
					-- Reinhold Messner

"Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss,
            but that we aim too low and hit."
					 -- Aristotle

"There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste."
                                                        -- Goethe

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. "
				-- Yoda from 'The Empire Strikes Back'

"when the power of love overcomes the love of power
            the world will know peace." 
                                     -- Jimi Hendrix.

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
							- Mark Twain

" Task without a vision is meaningless,
  Vision without a dream is drudgery,
  Vision and Dream are the essence of this world,
  You are as big as the world you are interested in."
						 - Robert Frost

"Somewhere the Sky touches the Earth, 
and the name of that place is the End."
							- African saying.

In order to make an apple pie from scratch, 
you must first create the universe.
						~~ Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Hazaaron khwaeshen aisi ke har khwaeish pe dam nikale,
bahut nikale mere aramaan lekin phir bhi kam nikale.
				- Ghalib.

"Imagination is intelligence with an erection."
					 Victor Hugo 

'These humans are crazy !!'
				-- Obelix in Asterix and the Roman Agent.

Too often, we lose sight of life's simple pleasures.
Remember, when someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles 
in your face to frown...but it only takes 4 muscles 
to extend your arm and slap the idiot upside
the back of the head...
					(forgot who said this one).

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance,
            the wise grows it under his feet."
				-James Oppenheim.

"In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining
that thou has attained it thou art a fool."
					- Simon Ben Azzai
					  second-century Jewish scholar.
			

"Humanity has run out of time. Cooperation
must replace confrontation if we are to
provide future generations with a fighting chance of survival"
				- Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
			

Whether things will be better if they
are different I do not know, but that they
will have to be different if they are to
become better, that I do know.
				- G.C Lichtenberg 

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
		  Or what's a heaven for?
				- Robert Browning

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do
            what you have to do.
				- Epictetus

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the
chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is
something to be enthusiastic about."
				- Einstein