All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
Fred Brooks

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese Proverb

But the wild things cried, "Oh please don't go-we'll eat you up-we love you so!" And Max said, "No!"
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at the very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery