mgsisk’s most recent Quotables

Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I could not, at any age, be content to make my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

Deep in earth my love is lying
And I must weep alone.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Friends know what you want them to know about you. Best friends know what you don't even know about yourself. And True friends help you build yourself from all they know.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one life the aching
Or cool one pain
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again
I shall not live in vain.

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anythin

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves; You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.