Wenjie’s Ramblings

“The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You, me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!

- Rocky Balboa

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

- Steve Jobs

Can you imagine how liberating it would be to live a life free of all the mind-numbing social niceties?

- House, S03E04

Journeys end in lovers’ meeting,

Every wise man’s son doth know.

Give it time. Everything happens eventually. All the good stuff. And when you think it never happens, it happens. Just got to be ready for it.

- Special Agent Seeley Booth, S02E16, Bones

Guilt I can do. If [I have] any expertise at all, it’s in the area of guilt. I have a black belt in guilt. If you ever want a guilt-off, the next time we meet let’s see how we match up. I’m pretty confident in that area.

- Hugh Laurie

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams
US cartoonist (1957 – )

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades really cramps his style.