09/27/07

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. -Jalaluddin Rumi

09/24/07

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. -Knute Rockne

09/21/07

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. -Stéphane Mallarmé

09/18/07

Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration. -Sigmund Freud

09/17/07

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. -George Eliot

09/13/07

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there. -Thiruvalluvar

09/12/07

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. -Jesse Lee Bennett

09/11/07

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. -Hunter S. Thompson

09/07/07

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. -Ed Parker

09/06/07

Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there." -Jef Mallett

09/05/07

The poet is a madman lost in adventure. -Paul Verlaine

09/04/07

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all, to keep alive in our hearts a sense of the inexpressibly human. -Richard Wright