“[T]here are still two really important things that can’t be commoditized. Fortunately, America still has one of them: imagination. What your citizens imagine now matters more than ever because they can act on their own imaginations farther, faster, deeper and cheaper than ever before— as individuals. In such a world, societies that can nurture people with the ability to imagine and spin off new ideas will thrive.”

-Thomas Friedman, The New York Times column

“Veracity derives from instinct…”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, “English Traits: Truth”

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The thing you really believe in always happens…and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”

-Frank Lloyd Wright

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

-Henry David Thoreau

We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

-Cesare Pavese

“Tell me and I forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I understand.”

-Chinese Proverb

“As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A sexual act, to be meaningful to those engaged in it, must be private and that particular act can never have real meaning for anyone else. In the act of attempting to describe it, the privacy is destroyed and with it the meaning, so why give words and paper to the meaningless? I see this matter as simply as this.

“Words are a product of the mind first and are spoken through the mouth or written through the point of a pen second but the language we have developed is, as yet, too limited to describe an activity in which both mind and body are engaged without getting the description out of balance. In the case of sex, it is only too easy for the balance to tip in the direction of the pornographic.”

-Jane Duncan, Letter from Reachfar

“On the way to happiness, there must be unhappiness.”

-Peter War, qtd. in “If Not Passion for the Job, at Least Warm Feelings“