"power resides where men believe it resides. no more and no less."

~ varys, in g.r.r. martin's "a clash of kings"

"if you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet."

~ isaac b. singer

"a lighthouse can only do so much. it is the ship that must slow and choose: to stop or to reverse, to risk the rocks or to chart a different course."

~ song of azrael 111:111

"pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."

~ jonathan kozol

"no friend have i. i must live by myself alone; but i know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so i will walk fearlessly with Him."

~ ludwig van beethoven :

"not everything needs to be said. tears for example: they speak for themselves."

~ paulo coelho

"things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

~ goethe