"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
~ Jeremiah 29:11

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that an exciting new world is born."
--Anais Nin

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"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of
getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."
~ Mark Twain

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"Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter-writer."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I think that quote is worthy of a permanent place on my side bar. What do you think?

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"If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere."
~ Francois de la Rochefoucauld

[Steve, thank you for the reminder.]

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"Do we owe debts to foreigners and to our own citizens contracted in a time of imminent peril for the preservation of our political existence? These are the subjects of constant and unblushing violation."

-- Alexander Hamilton (Federalist No. 15)

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"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint."

-- Alexander Hamilton (Federalist No. 15)

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"A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired."

-- Alexander Hamilton (The Farmer Refuted, 23 February 1775) - Founder of the NY Post - the oldest continuingly published newspaper in the country.

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"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value."

-- Thomas Paine (The American Crisis, No. 1, 19 December 1776)
Reference: Paine, Collected Writings, Library of America p.91

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On creativity:

Why should we all use our creative power...? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.
- Brenda Ueland

On love:

It is not enough to conquer, one must also know how to seduce.
- Merope (1743) by Votaire

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Through the ages, the words of impassioned lovers have transformed virginal sheets of paper into sanctuaries for restless hearts. So seductive, so intoxicating, so indulgent, our most private passions burned from the molten core of our being, luring us to the very heights of ecstasy and depths of despair... to be expressed unedited, undiluted, uninhibited.
- Anonymous

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