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Ralph Waldo Emerson


Skill to do comes of doing.

William Cowper


Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.

John Harold


Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

J. A. Spender


'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

Dame Edith Sitwell


I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Alcoholics Anonymous Prayer


God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Nicolas Martin


When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?

Charles Buxton


The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.

Erich Fromm


In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003


When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

William S. Buroughs, Paris Review, Fall 1965


I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.

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