Life is like a taxi.
The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere 
or just standing still.

Thomas Edison's teachers said he was "too stupid to learn anything." He was fired from his first two jobs for being "non-productive." As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" Edison replied, "I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."


A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.