03/25/09

If you're behind the times, they won't notice you. If you're right in tune with them, you're no better than they are, so they won't care much for you. Be just a little ahead of them. -Shel Silverstein

03/24/09

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. -Peter Drucker

03/23/09

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. -Leo Buscaglia

03/19/20

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. -Peter Drucker

03/18/09

Inspired teachers... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted. -John Jay Chapman

03/17/09

I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire. -St. Patrick

03/16/09

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again. -Maya Angelou

03/13/09

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. -Salman Rushdie

03/12/09

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities when directing one's course by it, one must still try to follow its direction. -Vincent van Gogh

03/10/09

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -Rainer Maria Rilke

03/09/09

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. -Tom Bodett

03/05/09

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before and he does it without destroying something else. -John Updike

03/05/09

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. -Friedrich Nietzsche

03/04/09

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. -Abraham Lincoln

03/03/09

Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless. -Lech Walesa

03/02/09

It's not the will to win that matters...everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. -Paul "Bear" Bryant