05/21/10

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. -Arnold Toynbee

05/20/10

We sometimes speak of winning reputation as though that were the final goal. The truth is contrary to this. Reputation is a reward to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a letdown, but rather, a reminder that the standard which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much, much is forever after expected. -Alvan Macauley

05/19/10

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. -Brendan Gill

05/18/10

The task of modern education is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. -C.S. Lewis

05/14/10

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. -Dorothy Sarnoff

05/13/10

It takes a long time to become young. -Pablo Picasso

05/12/10

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure. As stars high above earth, you are above everything distressing. But you must awaken to it. Wake up! -Baruch Spinoza

05/11/10

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

05/10/10

At first you will think of practice as a limited part of your life. In time you will realize that everything you do is part of your practice. -Baba Ram Dass

05/07/10

The amount of good we can do with a glad heart and a smile is incalculable, and the good of it goes out to others and stays with us at the same time. -Dixie Carter

05/06/10

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. -Annie Dillard

05/05/10

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. -Fran Lebowitz

05/03/10

Words, in a world of many wonders, are among the most wonderful adaptations of man. They are a complex music of meaning played upon himself as the orchestra.  He is at once the performer and the instruments. -Isaac Goldberg