10/30/09

We are all given one thing by which our lives are measured, one determination. Mine are the stories which can change or not change the world. It doesn't matter which as long as I continue to tell the stories....I learned a thousand stories before I took my first thousand steps. They are all I have. It's all I can do - Sherman Alexie

10/29/09

In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. -Marcel Proust

10/28/09

The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. -Emma Goldman

10/27/09

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. -Friedrich Nietzsche

10/26/09

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. -Frank Zappa

10/23/09

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. -Carl Jung

10/22/09

On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come. -Lynn Johnston

10/21/09

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy--and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. -Robert A. Heinlein

10/20/09

Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson

10/19/09

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -Thomas Moore

10/16/09

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation. -Xenophon

10/14/09

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge. -Daniel J. Boorstin

10/13/09

Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good. -Eric Hoffer

10/01/09

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! -Michael Landon