10/31/08

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. -H.P. Lovecraft

10/30/08

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. -Randy Pausch

10/29/08

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. -J.K. Rowling

10/28/08

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

10/27/08

Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking. -Nicolas de Chamfort

10/24/08

If we are to achieve a richer culture... we must weave one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. -Margaret Mead

10/23/08

It’s never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it. -Jane Yolen

10/22/08

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. -Edward Sapir

10/21/08

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. -Emily Dickinson

10/20/08

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. -Milton Friedman

10/16/08

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. -Ellen Goodman

10/10/08

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. -Amos Bronson Alcott

10/09/08

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. -Anzia Yezierska

10/08/08

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. -Isaac Newton

10/07/08

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. -Henry Ward Beecher

10/06/08

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. -Booker T. Washington

10/02/08

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. -Albert Ellis