"The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress." - Philip Roth (author of "Portnoy's Complaint")

If that's true, I'm definitely headed for hell!

"We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard. . . . Words are more durable than anything, that they blow with the wind, hibernate and reawaken, shelter parasitic on the most unlikely hosts, survive and survive and survive." - Penelope Lively

"You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of this endless cycle of desire and aversion. You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them."

- Bhanta Henepola Gunaratana, "Mindfulness in Plain English"

"If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z.
X is work.
Y is play.
Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein