10/22/08

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. -Edward Sapir

10/21/08

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. -Emily Dickinson

10/20/08

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. -Milton Friedman

10/16/08

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. -Ellen Goodman

10/10/08

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. -Amos Bronson Alcott

10/09/08

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. -Anzia Yezierska

10/08/08

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. -Isaac Newton

10/07/08

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. -Henry Ward Beecher

10/06/08

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. -Booker T. Washington

10/02/08

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. -Albert Ellis