11/30/07

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals. -Don Delillo

11/29/07

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

11/28/07

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. -Ursula K. Le Guin

11/23/07

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. -Bill Vaughan

11/20/07

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. -Michel De Montaigne

11/19/07

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. -Robert Davies

11/16/07

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. -Mahatma Gandhi

11/14/08

I picked up a pencil and held it over a sheet of white paper, but my feelings stood in the way of my words. Well, I would wait, day and night, until I knew what to say. Humbly now, with no vaulting dream of achieving a vast unity, I wanted to try to build a bridge of words between me and that world outside, that world which was so distant and elusive that it seemed unreal. -Richard Wright

11/13/07

Never grow a wishbone where your backbone should be. -Clementine Padfor

11/09/07

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, will say: We did it ourselves. -Lao Tzu

11/08/07

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue. -Xenocrates

11/07/07

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. -Al Franken

11/06/07

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. -Zhuangzi

11/05/07

I believe talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent. -Maya Angelou

11/02/07

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. -Yogi Berra

11/01/07

When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. -John F. Kennedy