"When love is not madness, it is not love." -Pedro Calderon de la Barca

"Change always comes bearing gifts." ~ Price Pritchett

"Remembering that you are going to die
is the best way I know to avoid the trap
of thinking you have something to lose." - Steve Jobs

"I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." -Henry David Thoreau

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." -Ralph Emerson

"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes." -Henry David Thoreau (Dedicated to Linda K. Argo, Director of the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, Washington, DC 2007-2010)

"It's not money that makes you well-dressed; it's understanding." -Christian Dior