"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man s, I
mean."
"Let us not be too particular; it is
better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all"
"A man cannot be made comfortable without
his own approval."
"Things do not change: we change."
Henry David Thoreau
"Change means
movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of
a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that
abrasive friction of conflict."
Saul Alinsky
"Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our
hearts."
"I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably
along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.
This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the
activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and
gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility
which is on its way."
Richard Bach
"It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task
there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes
appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had
elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again
from the beginning.".
