“Some people’s idea of [free speech] is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.”
––Winston Churchill, English statesman (1874 — 1965)

"Getting up when you've failed is a victory."
-- Eva

Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance -- Rilke

What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings but his lips are so strangely formed that, when the sighs and cries escape him, it sounds like beautiful music -- Fran Healy

Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul

Heaven is other people holding you in their hearts

Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time -- Carlyle

Poets are but lonely men with the hearts of others in their loneliness

You know what the saddest thing in the world is? Loving someone who used to love you -- Darla, "Buffy the VAmpire Slayer"

I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations. And you are not in this world to live up to mine.

It takes real breeding, to make a person feel like shit with one word. -Anita Blake from Guilty Pleasures

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats;
For I am armed so strong in honesty
That they pass by me as the idle wind,
Which I respect not.
~ William Shakespeare ~

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
-From "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

"And what good is a book without pictures or conversations?"
-- Alice in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

"Do you not know that I am a woman? When I think, I must speak."
- Shakesphere (As You Like It)

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
- Epictetus, "Discourses"

“To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” -Wiliam Blake, Auguries of Innocence

"The successful man knows something about everything,"
he said. p50
"Cheaper by the dozen," by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. &
Ernestine Carey, publ 1948.

"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
From THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula K. LeGuin.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln