The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.

- Arabian proverb

You own your silence, but you are a slave to your words.

- a colleague

Today's hybrid cars aren't worth the price differential to a regular car. To offset the incremental cost of buying a hybrid, you have to drive something like 15,000 miles a year for 10 years. Today's hybrid cars are a manufacturer's gimmick.

That said, don't stick with your large gas guzzlers...

The gift of risk lies not in what you achieve, but in who you become by taking risks.

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....

- Charles M Schultz

There was a man who disliked seeing his footprints and his shadow. He decided to escape from them, and began to run. But as he ran along, more footprints appeared, while his shadow easily kept up with him. Thinking he must be going too slowly, he ran faster and faster without stopping, until he finally collapsed from exhaustion and died.

If he had stood still, there would have been no footprints. If he had rested in the shade, his shadow would have disappeared.

- Chuang-tse