Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Sri Ramakrishna

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

Katarina Witt

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Fawn M. Brodie

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Pam Brown

I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer screen like a disorientated moth, one searching for a flaming light of recognition from someone/anyone!

Tom Conrad

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

P. G. Wodehouse

. . . you worked for Harry King, they said, because a broken leg was bad for business, and Harry King was all about business.

Terry Pratchett

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Baruch Spinoza

For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.

Tom Conrad

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson