Hold Fast

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

--Comte de Buffon

Real Illusions

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

--Alan W. Watts

Over & Speedy

Just remember, when you're over the hill, you pick up speed.

--Charles M. Schultz

The Key Word

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

--Ray Bradbury

The Future

The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.

--John Schaar

Sleepwalkers

We are sleepwalking into desperate circumstances largely determined by our addiction to oil, our supply of which mostly comes from distant lands full of people who hate us.

--James Howard Kunstler

Tricky

Sincerity is a tricky quality to put over in these snarky times.

--Ken Tucker

Popular Fellow

Even Warren Harding was popular when he died.

--Anne Lamott

High and Low

The mind of man, when he gives the spur and bridle to his thoughts, doth never stop, but naturally sallies out into both extremes of high and low.

--Jonathan Swift

Disaster

The invasion of Iraq, I believe, will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history.

--Retired Lt. General William Odom (October 2005; former head of the National Security Agency during the Reagan Adminstration)

The Difference

Unhappiness is best described as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

--Edward de Bono

Be Careful

Be careful how you interpret the world: it is like that.

--Erich Heller

What News Is

News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.

--Bill Moyers

Willing to Endure

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

--William James

Avoiding It

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change--and we all instinctively avoid it.

--E.B. White

Love, Trust, Harm

Love all, trust few, do harm to none.

--William Shakespeare

Alternate Universe

How many of you, I wonder, have heard a friend or a family member in the last few years remark that it's almost as if America has entered "an alternate universe"?

--Al Gore (October 5, 2005)

Entitlement

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.

--Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Heart & Mind

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

--Jacques Barzun

State of Shock

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

--James Baldwin