07/26/07

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington

07/24/07

As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them -- "ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is. -Chaim Potok

07/16/07

Conversation is not an enterprise designed to yield an extrinsic profit, a contest where a winner gets a prize, no[r] is it an activity of exegesis; it is an unrehearsed intellectual adventure. -Michael Oakeshott

07/13/07

The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers. -Jostein Gaarder

07/12/07

You do not lead by hitting people over the head--that's assault, not leadership. -Dwight D. Eisenhower

07/11/07

One of the annoying things about believing in free choice and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. -P.J. O'Rourke

07/10/07

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. -Barbara Hall

07/09/07

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. -Edgar Allan Poe

07/06/07

Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings. -W.H. Auden

07/05/07

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed. -Jan de Hartog

07/04/07

Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well. -Peter Ustinov