11/07/07

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. -Al Franken

11/06/07

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. -Zhuangzi

11/05/07

I believe talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent. -Maya Angelou

11/02/07

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. -Yogi Berra

11/01/07

When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. -John F. Kennedy

10/31/07

Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you. -Virgil

10/30/07

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. -Ernest Hemingway

10/29/07

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. -A.A. Milne

10/26/07

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. -Ursula K. Le Guin

10/25/07

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. - Quintus Septimius Tertullianus