"That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis."

-- Geoffrey Chaucer

“In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.”
“There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup.”

Source : Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser (2003). “Braided Creek: a conversation in poetry”, Copper Canyon Pr
“Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence, but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decision without them.”
“A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.”
“It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.”

Source : Pliny (the Younger) (1807). “The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks”, p.195
“I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for me!”
“On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose, Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend . . . He reached a middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.”
“To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.”

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