Even the roughest seas an carry us to calmer waters.

Hope is the dream of the waking man.
Aristotle

"Whoever you are, there is some younger person
who thinks you are perfect.

There is some work that will never be done if
you don't do it.

There is someone who would miss you if you
were gone.

There is a place that you alone can fill."

- Jacob M. Braude

It's not that i am so smart;it's just that i stay with problems longer.
--Albert Einstein

Recipe for success:Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing;prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishiing.
--William A Ward

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover
when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's
mistakes. "

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

"I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets."
D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)

"I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are
brave. "
E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

"Let no one who loves be unhappy. Even love unreturned has it's rainbow."
-James Matthew Barrie

"My tan is darker than ever, my implants are in place, chin cap tightly sewn
in place, Mom's bills are paid, even changed my name, ...my fake teeth are
glaring white, my dyed black hair is glistening, my snake like attitude and
behavior is in full gear...and I ask myself why can't I ever get a date?"

Older Gay Male Citizen, Watching Time Pass Him By Working In the Fabricated
Media Biz, 2004.

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive
characters are seared with scars."

---E. H. Chapin 1814-1880

"In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving."

--- Sheldon Kopp

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be. -Tom Landry

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and Then leap in the dark to our success.
–Henry David Thoreau

I have I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. -Rosa Parks

Determine that the thing can and shall be done,
And then we shall find the way – Abraham Lincoln

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious
xxxxx--Murphy's Corollaries

Fifth Law of Applied Terror:
xxxxIf you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.
Corollary:
xxxxIf you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
xxxxx--Snoopy