There comes a night when all too late The mind shall long to prompt the achieving hand, The eager thought behind closed portals stand, And the last wishes to the mute lips press Buried ere death in silent helplessness.

Tell me your story and I will get back your life.

Stephen Richards

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.

Nelson Rockefeller

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

Andrew Sullivan

Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.

Paul Vernon Buser

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

Alfred Adler

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Stephen Covey

It was obvious to Aristotle that most things which move do so because some other moving object impels them. A hand, itself in motion, moves a sword; a wind, itself in motion, moves a ship. But it was also fundamental to his thought that no infinite series can be actual. We cannot therefore go on explaining one movement by another . There must be in the last resort something which, motionless itself, initiates the motion of all other things. Such a Prime Mover he finds in the wholly transcendent and immaterial God who 'occupies no place and is not affected by time'. But we must not imagine Him moving things by any positive action, for that would be to attribute some kind of motion to Himself and we should then not have reached an utterly unmoving Mover. How then does He move things? Aristotle answers [Greek here], 'He moves as beloved'. He moves other things, that is, as an object of desire moves those who desire it. The is moved by its love for God, and being moved, communicates motion to the rest of the universe. [ch.V.c]

C.S. Lewis

B-----d Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

Thomas Moore

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

Jerry Saltz

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

Bernhard Langer

When you let people into the inner sanctum of your life, you risk having them see the heart of you. (from Vanishing Acts)

Jodi Picoult