These are a few of my favourite things...

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
-Nora Ephron

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.
-Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves. The class met on Tuesdays. It began after breakfast. The subject was The Meaning of Life. It was taught from experience.
No grades were given, but there were oral exams each week. You were expected to respond to questions, and you were expected to pose questions of your own. You were also required to perform physical tasks now and then, such as lifting the professor's head to a comfortable spot on the pillow or placing his glasses on the bridge of his nose. Kissing him good-bye earned you extra credit.
No books were required, yet many topics were covered, including love, work, community, family, aging, forgiveness, and, finally, death. The last lecture was brief, only a few words.
A funeral was held in lieu of graduation.
Although no final exam was given, you were expected to produce one long paper on what was learned. That paper is presented here.
The last class of my old professor's life had only one student.
I was the student.
-Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

You're lucky if you can find even one thing in a lifetime that inspires you to push beyond the accepted, to fight the established, to run the razor's edge and discover your limits are only what you make them. But if you ever do find such a thing, dig your teeth into that sucker like you're a pit bull and hang on as long as you can.
-Dave Haynie

Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll learn how to live.
-Morrie Schwartz

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
-Albert Einstein

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
-Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
-Albert Einstein

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
-Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
-Albert Einstein

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
-Albert Eintsein

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the former.
-Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
-Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
-Albert Einstein

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
-Albert Einstein

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
-(Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)