05/26/09

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. -Robertson Davies

05/22/09

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge. -Arnold Palmer

05/21/09

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." -Maria Montessori

05/20/09

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities. -Dr. Seuss

05/19/09

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. -Madeleine L'Engle

05/18/09

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. -Horace

05/15/09

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. -Booker T. Washington

05/14/09

All men -- whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans -- have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies. -Norman Cousins

05/13/09

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it." -Sydney J. Harris

05/12/09

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. -Bob Dylan

05/08/09

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. -

05/07/09

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40--- and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20? -Arthur C. Clarke

05/06/09

Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Hugh Macleod

05/05/09

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. -Charles Du Bos

05/04/09

The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don’t limit it. -John Eliot

05/01/09

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it. -Sharon Salzberg