03/27/15

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. -Daniel J. Boorstin

03/26/15

I believe you have to be true to people. You have to be writing something that people understand but, at the same time, something that's profound enough to have meaning past, say, the six o'clock news. -Amiri Baraka

03/25/15

Fiction is not a dream.  Nor is it guesswork.  It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up. -Margaret Banning

03/24/15

Reading, I'd been taught, means questioning, sensing that what you read is unfinished until completed in the self. The first text is the soul. And the last.  -Sherman Alexie

03/20/15

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. -Edward Abbey

03/19/15

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. -Amy Poehler

03/17/15

If you're an original thinker, you are going get told "no" a lot, and you have to be able to hear "no" many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda. -Nick Offerman

03/13/15

Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect. -Blaise Pascal

03/11/15

How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. -Kenneth Tynan

03/10/15

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up. -Stephen Hawking

03/09/15

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books. -Roald Dahl

03/06/15

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. -Leo Buscaglia

03/05/15

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

03/04/15

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. -William Butler Yeats

03/03/15

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same. -Viktor E. Frankl