A random assortment (a myriad, if you will) of quotes that speak to me:


To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Allan K. Chalmers

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,Therefore, we are saved by hope.Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;Therefore, we are saved by faith.Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.Therefore, we are saved by love.No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness. -Reinhold Niebuhr

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. - Gloria Steinem

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. - Mark Twain

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. - Henry David Thoreau

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. - Aristotle


Marge: Lisa, if you want to tell this boy you're not interested, just tell him the truth.
Homer: And if that doesn't work- six magic words: 'I'm not gay but I'll learn'.


Bart: We want the truth.
Sideshow Bob: You can't handle the truth. No truth-handler, you. I deride your truth-handling abilities


Lisa: Relax? I can't relax. Nor can I yield, relent, or... Only two synonyms? Oh my God, I'm losing my perspicacity. Aaaaa!
Homer: Well, it's always in the last place you look.


After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music. - Aldous Huxley