"One must have chaos within oneself if one is to be a dancing star." - Friedrich Nietzsche There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less. --Kurt Hahn If you could understand everything I said, you'd be me. -- Miles Davis Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. -- Philip K. Dick "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." -- Henry David Thoreau "Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun." -- Matt Groening A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. Christopher Morley Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. Rose Franken He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. Charlie Brown "The problem with reality is the lack of background music." -- Anonymous Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. --Mahatma Gandhi Tell the truth and run. -- Yugoslavian Proverb Lost the authors to these two, if you know them please refresh my memory. "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 of life." "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous. Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Quotations from Noel Coward "I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it. My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself. N.C. It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all. My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough. Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses.