"I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something."

-- Edward Everett

“Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.”

Source : Gwendolyn Brooks (1988). “Gottschalk and the grande tarantelle”, Third World Pr
“Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.”
“I believe that it's fine if the university wants to regulate, for example, bandwidth access, but they should treat the students data as private data.”

Source : "Cyber rights... and wrongs" by Erica Hill, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2003.
“Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.”
“When I was about 17 I knew that I was going to be serious about music. Before that I thought, fairly certainly, that I would be a writer. Before that, I thought I would be a forward in the NBA. And before that I thought that I would own a snake farm.”
“It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.”
“A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.”
“I just can't seem to paint nice things.”

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