"When you welcome your emotions as teachers, every emotion brings good news, even the ones that are painful."

“Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.”

“People can't help the way they look, just the way they act.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

“It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I''m having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.”

“What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.”

Source : Mary Antin (1914). “They who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration”

“I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of course, gets me in a lot of trouble - all of which combines into free expression.”

Source : Source: www.rutherford.org

“No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.”

“Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.”

Source : Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.33, Penguin

“When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.”