I have often found that the best way to say something has already been said.  It is with that understanding, that I present some of my favorite quotes and ideas that others have been kind enough to share with me one way or another.

"Plato was a bore." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy." - Ernest Hemingway (1889-1961)

"Hemingway was a jerk." - Harold Robbins

"Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life." - Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb

"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds." - George Eliot

"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness.  Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness.  Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind." - Douglas MacArthur