06/29/10

Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to answer all the questions. -William Allin

06/28/10

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. -Sylvia Plath

06/25/10

The greatest personalities that ever existed have been those who united human beings and put them on the road toward cooperation and effectiveness and peace. Those whom the world has held highest have helped to unite and not sever interconnectedness. They have not been the destroyers of differences but the harmonizer of differences. -John Lovejoy Elliott

06/24/10

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. -Albert Camus

06/22/10

Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction. -Francis Picabia

06/21/10

I sincerely believe that there is a time in life for drifting. There is a time for sitting back and getting in touch with yourself. Some of our most interesting illuminations and ideas will come when we take time to reflect, time to kick back and cruise awhile. -Rudolfo Anaya

05/21/10

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. -Arnold Toynbee

05/20/10

We sometimes speak of winning reputation as though that were the final goal. The truth is contrary to this. Reputation is a reward to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a letdown, but rather, a reminder that the standard which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much, much is forever after expected. -Alvan Macauley

05/19/10

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. -Brendan Gill

05/18/10

The task of modern education is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. -C.S. Lewis