"I actually feel bad for you, you're like the hamster who gets cornered and has a heart attack." ~jG to me, on my shoddy survival skills

"There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women." ~Madeleine K. Albright (thank you Amanda)

"He makes me think of the kind of guy who gives his girlfriend money and tells her to go buy something nice."
~Heather Toews, on the coat check guy at MOMA

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." ~ Buddha

"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent." ~Martin Luther King Jr.

"The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
~Martin Luther King Jr.

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life: love illuminates it." ~Martin Luther King Jr.

"A lie cannot live." ~Martin Luther King Jr.

"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."
~Martin Luther King Jr.

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." ~Martin Luther King Jr.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~Martin Luther King Jr.

"You can't make rad happen. Rad just happens." ~Ben Pringle

"Today I dropped my phone in the toilet, saw a lexus with a mannequin in the passenger seat parked behind anthropology in Pasadena, and I got a new ipod. It was really a day of firsts." ~SKL, kayekilla.blogspot.com

"I love you, so much. And it's real. (Gazing into your eyes and you knowing what's inside of me emoticon). ~jG Francis, via text message

"I wish I had an infinite cloud of ketchup above me and it squirt on everything I ate." ~Tommy Burke

"Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It’s the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It’s a mode of training your senses and intellect so you’re able to perceive the fact that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it. Are you interested in becoming a wildly disciplined, fiercely tender, scrupulously curious, aggressively sensitive, lyrically logical, lustfully compassionate Master of Rowdy Bliss? Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes to assist you in turning into the gorgeous masterpiece you were born to be." ~Rob Brezsny, Free Will Astrology

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." ~H. Jackson Browne

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there." ~Will Rogers

"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." ~James Thurber

"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough."
~George Washington Carver

"I learn something new every day." ~me ...

... "Yeah, but you forget three things you already knew."
~jG Francis

"I swung him around in a circle by his rattail until I let him go." ~Steven Booth on childhood fights

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." ~Erica Jong
(thanks SKL)

"People do what they can afford, Milly." ~one old lady to another in a doctor's office waiting room in Beverly Hills

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sometimes I think you were born a poet, and sometimes, I think this trip made you one." ~Holli Meadow, to me, on a train somewhere in the Gobi Desert

"The world is a mirror of the mind's abundance." ~Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook

"We want men..." ~me
"...And if we can't have them, then we want boys with facial hair." ~Jamie Masters

"Quit being a bad man, good man." ~jG Francis

"Only by 'looking forward' and throwing ourselves repeatedly into the tumult of the world, with the intention of making our voices count--only in this way do we really become human beings." ~Václav Havel

"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction." ~Bessie Stanley, Lincoln Sentinal, November 30, 1905