Life is mostly froth and bubble, / Two things stand like stone, / Kindness in another's trouble, / Courage in your own. -Adam Lindsay Gordon, (1833-1870)

A closed mind is a wonderful thing to lose.

Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. - Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet. "Inferno," cto. 1, l. 1-3, The Divine Comedy (c. 1307-

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. -Richard Feynman, physicist, Nobel laureate (1918-1988)

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is -- it must be something you cannot possibly do. - Henry Moore

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and philosopher (1772-1834)

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it. -- Alan B. Watts