11/26/09

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. -Jacques Maritain

11/25/09

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. -Jim Rohn

11/24/09

Take what you can use and let the rest go by. -Ken Kesey

11/23/09

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. -

11/20/09

Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education. -Burk Hudson

11/19/09

Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers could not have continued if the book hadn't been written. When you come across a book like that it is a privilege. -Hisham Matar

11/06/09

The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal. -Karl Menninger

11/05/09

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will? -Thomas_à_Kempis

11/04/09

To hurry pain is to leave a classroom still in session. To prolong pain is to remain seated in a vacated classroom and miss the next lesson. -Yahia Lababidi

11/03/09

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -Bertrand Russell