"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

-- Jon Hammond

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

-- Virginia Woolf

Phew, vat and tax all sorted, always a relief :-)

Branchout set to make facebook a professional networking site by connecting with LinkedIN and Twitter - http://ping.fm/DHhmt

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more of it I have."

-- Thomas Jefferson

Confidence is the greatest gift you can give a child

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

-- e.e. cummings

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."

-- Charles R. Swindoll

lost in translation http://ping.fm/djAjh

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

-- Sir Winston Churchill

"Art is the act of navigating without a map."

-- Seth Godin

Sir Ken Robinson on changing Education Paradigms http://ping.fm/yAT5u fantastic!

"A problem well stated is a problem half solved."

-- Charles F. Kettering

our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently. - Palladas (4th Century Alexandria)

"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them."

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

http://ping.fm/S3yI0 11 mins worth watching, and the comments show the true depth of the challenge ahead

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have."

-- Anonymous

New Year's inspiration - "Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according
to the measure of thy desire."

-- Arab proverb