To yackety-yak about the past is for me time lost. Every morning I wake up saying, 'I'm still alive -- a miracle.' And so I keep on pushing.

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.

Dan Rather

If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients seem to have had reason to decide that bringing their creations to full completion likewise required a correspondence bewteen the measure of individual elements and the appearance of the work as a whole.

Vitruvius

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Plato

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Blaise Pascal

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Henry David Thoreau

Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.

Eugene Delacroix

Whatever ought to be, can be.

James Rouse

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

Sydney J. Harris

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Thomas Carlyle

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

George Orwell

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

Henry David Thoreau