Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories.

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

Leo Tolstoy

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself.Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

Friedrich Nietzsche

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

James Agate

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Ray Bradbury

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

Ally Sheedy

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Samuel Johnson

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

Helen Thomas

Being honest about your feelings doesn't always mean you're telling the truth.

Lacey Sturm

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

Charles Richter

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

Salman Rushdie

The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.

Bryant H. McGill