03/16/09

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again. -Maya Angelou

03/13/09

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. -Salman Rushdie

03/12/09

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities when directing one's course by it, one must still try to follow its direction. -Vincent van Gogh

03/10/09

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -Rainer Maria Rilke

03/09/09

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. -Tom Bodett

03/05/09

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before and he does it without destroying something else. -John Updike

03/05/09

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. -Friedrich Nietzsche

03/04/09

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. -Abraham Lincoln

03/03/09

Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless. -Lech Walesa

03/02/09

It's not the will to win that matters...everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. -Paul "Bear" Bryant