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• Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
  -- Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834)...
• Quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests.
  -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Dedication to Urn-Burial, Chap. v...
• There is only one universal goal: a gracious death with no regrets. -- Deng Ming-Dao
• That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 397...
• There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over -- and to let go.
  It means leaving what's over without denying its validity or its past importance in our lives....
• We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
  -- Don Marqui...
• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow me
  and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects....
• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow me
  and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects....
• It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. -- Shakespeare