The young sailor at sea was ordered to climb a mast to adjust a sail during a violent storm. He got halfway up, looked down, got dizzy and sick. An old sailor on deck shouted up to him Look up, son, look up. Young sailor looked up, regained his composure, and completed his mission. Moral: Look ahead, not back.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.

John Updike

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Ravi Shankar

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

Noble fathers have noble children.

Euripides

The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.

Gerda Lerner

I have forgotten my umbrella.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

Tom Cochrane

Where love is absent, there can be no woman.

George Sand, Lelia, vol. I, 1833

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

George Orwell

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

Logan Pearsall Smith

I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.

David Talbot

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Kahlil Gibran