08/31/09

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. -Rabbinical Saying

08/27/09

A book is...the chariot that bears the human soul. -Emily Dickinson

08/26/09

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. -Charles W. Eliot

08/25/09

The good writer masters grammar in order to control his words, and meaning is his target. -Ken Macrorie

08/21/09

Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as as apprentice studies the master. -William Faulkner

08/20/09

Books may well be the only true magic. -Alice Hoffman

08/19/09

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. -Henry Ward Beecher

08/18/09

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. -John Naisbitt

08/17/09

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider. -Damon Runyon

08/14/09

We ought to think we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree. -Pablo Casals