Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
"Alasdair is the only person I know who can say no _and_ yes at the same time, and _mean_ it." -- me
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from religious conviction." -- Blaise Pascal