As for worrying about what other people might think - I just forget it. They aren't
concerned about me. They're too busy worrying about what other people
and I think of them.
- Michael le Boeuf

"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever."
                                                                                                   – Margaret Cho

About Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho, the outspoken Korean-American comedian and actor, made television history as the first Asian-American with her own TV series, All American Girl. She was born in 1968 in San Francisco and has mined her life for extremely successful one-woman shows, including I'm the One That I Want and Notorious C.H.O., both of which spawned albums, movie versions, and books. When not touring with her comedy, Cho works now in Hollywood as both an actress and a director.

You can't test courage cautiously

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have not yet been discovered."

-- Ralph Waldo Emersom
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

             Laugh a lot
              Love a lot
Life is still the best deal around

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."
                                                                – John Ruskin

"Don't let the fear of striking out
hold you back."
                                    - Babe Ruth -Babe Ruth

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success."
                                                               – Henry David Thoreau

"This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought."
– Lin Yutang

About Lin Yutang

Chinese author Lin Yutang wrote more than 35 books in English and Chinese, including My Country and My People and The Importance of Living, which brought him international fame. He was born in 1895 in the Fujian province in China. He created a Chinese-American dictionary, an indexing system for Chinese letters, and translated many classic Chinese texts. Written in a humorous, accessible style, his books bridged European and Chinese cultures. He died in 1976.

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
                                                                       – T.S. Eliot

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
                                                                    – George Orwell

About George Orwell

George Orwell was the pen name of English writer Eric Blair, best known for the satirical Animal Farm and the dystopian 1984. He was born in 1903 in India and raised in England. After school, he joined the Burmese police. He left after five years, disillusioned with colonialism, and lived in poverty while he taught himself to write. Following two rejections for Down and Out in Paris and London, he asked a friend to destroy the manuscript. She gave it to an agent instead, resulting in publication. He died in 1950.

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this — you haven't."
                                                                   – Thomas A. Edison

About Thomas A. Edison

Thomas Edison, the American inventor who made his early fortune with the stock ticker and the phonograph record, is credited with inventing the light bulb — although he simply improved upon the original idea by making the bulb burn longer. Edison was born in 1847 in Ohio. He was a dreamer in school; his teacher called him "addled," and his mother taught him at home. He used the money from his inventions to set up a lab with a number of employees; he held a record 1,093 patents in his name. He died in 1931.

"Every artist was first an amateur."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Tom, writing is no big deal. The only thing you can do wrong is quit."
                                Louise Duffy - 1951
                                             Teacher - 6th Grade
                                             Crete Elementary School
                                             Crete, Nebraska

"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."
                                                                    – Linus Pauling

About Linus Pauling

American chemist Linus Pauling is the only person ever awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes. He was born in Portland in 1901. He won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his breakthrough work on hemoglobins and proteins. He also originated the theory that DNA was formed in a double helix. He became a peace activist after studying fallout from nuclear bombs. His influence and work in concert with other scientists led to a test ban treaty and his second Nobel Prize, for Peace, in 1963. He died in 1994.

"Sometimes the best helping hand
  you can get is a good, firm push."