Be Thankful

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. ~Buddha

Confidence

Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence. ~Rosalynn Carter

Piece of Music

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely. ~Florent Schmitt

Love

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
~James Baldwin

Merry Christmas!

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ~Washington Irving

Home

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. ~Maya Angelou

Happy Winter Solstice

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. ~Andrew Wyeth

A Man's Heart

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne

For Love

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love. ~Margaret Atwood

Rush Hour

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves? ~Robin Williams

Mask

Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face. ~Faith Ringgold

Exploration

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. ~Ansel Adams

Behind...

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time. ~Fred Brooks

Success

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead. ~Imogen Cunningham

Both Ends

Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb

African Women

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence. ~Wangari Maathai

Courage

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. ~Ruth Gordon

Misery

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Caricature

If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed. ~Mordecai Richler

Tea

Tea...is a religion of the art of life. ~Okakura Kakuzō

Inner Voice

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something. ~Meredith Monk

Idealism

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. ~Claude McKay