By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

Jacques Lacan

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Source Unknown

Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first.

Proverb

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

William S. Burroughs

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Harvey Fierstein

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rainer Maria Rilke

Be happy or die.

Rob Cohen

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

P. B. Fitzwater

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The definitive study of the herd instincts of astronomers has yet to be written, Fernie said, but there are times when we resemble nothing so much as a herd of antelope, heads down in tight formation, thundering with firm determination in a particular direction across the plain. At a given signal from the leader we whirl about, and, with equally firm determination, thunder off in quite a different direction, still in tight parallel formation.(quoting an observation made by astronomer J. Donal Fernie)

Michael Brooks

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

Jackie Kennedy

The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

Warren Rudman