"If it's never our fault,
we can't take responsibility for it.
If we can't take responsibility for it,
we'll always be its victim."
R. Bach

"You must stay drunk on writing
so reality cannot destroy you."
R. Bradbury

"You fail only if you stop writing."
R. Bradbury

"A professional writer is
an amateur who didn't quit."
R. Bach

"This is how you get respect,
by offering something that you have."
M. Schwartz

"...when you most need it,
neither money nor power
will give you the feeling
you're looking for,
no matter how much
of them you have."
M. Schwartz

"You can't substitute material things for love
or for gentleness or tenderness or for a
sense of comradeship."
M. Schwartz

"Love is life.
And if you miss love,
you miss life."
L. Buscaglia

"The only source of
knowledge is experience."
A. Einstein

"A story is told as much by silence as by speech."
S. Griffin

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
F. Bacon

"God's first creature,
which was light."
F. Bacon

"Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life -
learn some and think some and
draw and paint and sing and dance and
play and work every day some."
R. Fulghum

"Some thoughts and ideas are like balloons
and may even rise far above the others.
Try setting these thought balloons on fire.
It will make you brilliant thoughts shine out.
This may even reveal some ideas that were
hidden in dark corners waiting to be illuminated."
M. Alibrando

"With enough illuminated reflections,
even the darkest nights,
can seen as bright as day."
M. Alibrando

"Someone once said,
'The more I learn about the universe we live in,
the more questions I have and the more questions
I have, the less I know.' "

"Physicist and Cosmologist of this age seem more
convinced then ever that there is more of nothing
in the universe than there is of of something.
Perhaps infinity plays a factor in the equation."

"Someday I may just learn everything that there is to
learn about the universe that one could possible learn.
And in that moment of knowledge of everything
my report to you will be thus:
'I know absolutely nothing.' "
M. Alibrando

"Wise is the one who knows his or her limitation.
Wiser still is the one who always seeks to improve oneself,
who tries to find ways to overcome these same limitations.
Let patience be your watchword."
M. Alibrando

"The deeper you go on you journey to find wisdom,
the more valuable that wisdom may become to you."
M. Alibrando

"Wisdom is not found only on mountain tops.
It can also be found in the deepest,
darkest caves and tunnels.

Carry with you the illumination
gathered on previous sojourns.

Let the illuminations of your heart,
be both compass and lantern."
M. Alibrando

"Wisdom does not always arrive in full light of day.
Sometimes the brightest ideas arrive when you are
sitting alone in the dark."
M. Alibrando

"...there is no limit to the amount of good a man can
do if he does not worry about who gets credit."
R. Fulghum

"Clean up your own mess."
R. Fulghum

"The examined life is no picnic."
R. Fulghum

"It is best for us to
make our discoveries
in order, one at a time."
E. S. Maggin

"Oh, people shouldn't pick living people for their heroes,
somebody who's dead can't disappoint you anymore."
E. S. Maggin

"I learned never to empty the well of my writing,
but always to stop when there was still
something there in the deep part of the well,
and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."
E. Hemingway

"Poetry surrounds us everywhere,
but putting it on paper is, alas,
not so easy as looking at it."
V. Van Gogh

"The ultimate lesson
all of us have to learn is
unconditional love,
which includes
not only others but
ourselves as well."
E. Kubler-Ross

"The reason you suffer is because
you think your identity and worth
as a human being are inextricably
tied into your career.
Don't think that."
C. M. Levine

"One must be an inventor to read well.
There is then creative reading
as well as creative writing."
R. W. Emerson

"Hope lies in dreams,
in imagination,
and in the courage
of those who
dare to make
dreams into reality."
J. Salk