09/25/08

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. -Marie Curie

09/24/08

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. -Phyllis McGinley

09/23/08

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. -Haim Ginott

09/22/08

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -Albert Einstein

09/19/08

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. -Latin Proverb

09/18/08

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair--the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page. -Stephen King

09/16/08

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. -Ralph Charell

09/15/08

There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively. -Min Kim

09/12/08

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes all the pressure off the second. -Robert Frost

09/11/08

All ideas are already in the brain, just as all statues are in the marble. -Carlo Dossi

09/09/08

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. -Albert Camus

09/08/08

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. -General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

09/03/08

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has been written. -Richard Brautigan

09/02/08

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. -Thomas Carlyle