“No thief, however skillful can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.” – L. Frank B...

“Activism is my rent for living on the planet.” – Alice Walker What today brings is a profound appreciation for literary activism. The Ca...

“For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.” ― T.S. Eliot It is now another year, on...

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a God.” - Aristotle Emily Dickinson’s famous poem, “There Is No Frigate Lik...

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” – Toni Morrison, Beloved There was a poem framed in ...

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.” - Aristotle Authors and creative spirits are always on my mind but never so muc...

“Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.” –Henry David Thoreau The atmosphere was as swe...

“...people with nothing to declare carry the most.” – Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Sometimes spirituality fa...

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” – Kahlil Gibran Kahlil ...

“Do you really want to look back at your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline My...

“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde I had a bit of an emotional hangover the day after this Sunday’s Golden Glob...

"It is only with the heart that we can see rightly, as the essence of things is not visible to the eye..." Antoine de Saint Exupery- Le P...

“What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.” Haruki Murakami Who among us is blessed enough to be touched with a truly ...

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning...

“The most important thing in the world is family and love.” John Wooden I have been reading Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg. It’...

“Life to you is a bold and dashing responsibility.” – Fortune Cookie We all recognize, accept and even agonize about all of the many resp...

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin I have been thinking a lot about Dr. Jane Gentry Vance, a resident ...

"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” - Khalil Gibran We are all aware that one day this will end. Our liv...

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill Enthusiasm is something I come by hon...

“Look within… the secret is inside you.” – Huineng Buddhist Monk Huineng, the Sixth and last Patriarch of Chan Buddhism was born in 638 A...