If you don't ask, you don't get.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Albert Camus

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

Mary Gordon

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

Ralph Neas

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Yiddish Proverb

Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Audre Lorde

There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?

George Eliot

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

Karl Jaspers

John Lennon said life was what happened while you made other plans. So was death.

Richard Castle

sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.

Cecelia Ahern

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

Steven Wright

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Thomas Carlyle

When in doubt, take more time.

John Zimmerman