12/22/09

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about. -Trey Parker and Matt Stone

12/21/09

Little by little, one travels far. -J. R. R. Tolkien

12/17/09

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. -Robertson Davies

12/16/09

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. -Albert Schweitzer

12/15/09

We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it. -Anne Wilson Schaef

12/11/09

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. -Robert Benchley

12/10/09

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with. -John Locke

12/09/09

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. -Confucius

12/08/09

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. -John Lennon

12/07/09

Reading a book is like rewriting it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. -Angela Carter

12/03/09

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending. -Fred Rogers

12/02/09

One may go a long way after one is tired. -French Proverb

12/01/09

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. -Abraham Flexner

11/30/09

In poetry the pen is not so much a recording instrument—I don't want to play secretary to my own internal life—but I think of the pen as an instrument of discovery. -Billy Collins