Alexander McCall Smith Quote

Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others.

To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.