11/21/08

The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit. -St. Anthony of Padua

11/20/08

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government -Sam Houston

11/19/08

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. -Francis Maitland Balfour

11/18/08

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. -Charles Bukowski

11/17/08

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. -Eddie Cantor

11/14/08

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes. -William Davis

11/13/08

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. -Thomas Merton

11/12/08

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. -Henri Nouwen

11/11/08

Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are. -Augustine of Hippo

11/07/08

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. -Steve Jobs

11/06/08

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy. -Spike Milligan

11/05/08

Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in rerun. -John McCain

11/04/08

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger--we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again. -Sharon Salzberg

11/03/08

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Martin Luther King, Jr.