"Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars ... The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope — we must hope — that man’s own creation, man’s own genius, will not destroy him." ~Albert Einstein

"I'm so damn excited about it, the woman hunts moose. She's an NRA member for life. These things mean a lot..."

~Mike Piper, on Sarah Palin, quoted in The Coeur d'Alene Press

"If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going." ~Harriet Tubman (thanks Sara Libby)

"We've lost an Angeleno but we've gained a writer." ~a Virgin America clerk to Kimberly Faith Waid on her way to write her novel in that big city out East, miniatureamerica.blogspot.com/

"Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work." ~author unknown

"Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." ~Albert Einstein

"There is so much I don't know about life and I realized it seventy times a million over and over again today thanks to the magical world of the Renaissance Festival."
~Sara Kaye, kayekilla.blogspot.com

"What are you gonna do today?" ~me to jG

"I guess I'm gonna conquer the world." ~jG to me

"But you conquered the world yesterday and the day before that." ~me to jG

"I know, this is getting boring. I need a bigger world."
~jG Francis

"When I was 18 my songs would have all been about Jesus...and if I had been clever enough, everyone would have thought they were about a relationship." ~Heidi Fikstad

"A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art." ~Jorge Luis Borges

"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions." ~Alfred Adler

"The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but they set their sights too low and do." ~Michelangelo

"Someday, and the time may come sooner than I'd like, I will die and the coroner (there will be an autopsy if my final wishes are adhered to by my friends and family) anyway the coroner will have to crack open my chest to rip my heart out to put it on that metal scale that weighs bananas and murder evidence. My heart will weigh exactly six tons of butte, mesa, rainbow and road." ~Sara Kaye, kayekilla.blogspot.com

"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our live so well that Death will tremble to take us." ~Charles Bukowski

"There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action." ~Albert Camus

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself." ~Charlie Chaplin

"Reality is something you rise above." ~Liza Minnelli

"Waitressing is temporary. You and what you have to offer is eternal." ~Charlie Veprek to me, via iChat

"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
~Anais Nin (thanks Sara Kaye)

"I miss the west like crazy. Like phantom amputee pains! It's going to be interesting to see how this all pans out."
~Sara Kaye, from the other side of the country

"Let him who would move the world first move himself." ~Socrates

"He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."
~Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

"I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time." ~Herbert Bayard Swope

"Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle -- he's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself." ~Coach Taylor, Friday Night Lights

"True believers are not amazed by miracles."

~Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli

"If you're going through hell, keep going." ~Winston Churchill

"That baby is better off with me having my morning coffee." ~Jamie Masters, on her way to babysitting

"Everything I had ever struggled to learn I found I had already survived. I had achieved my purpose--everything I had set out in life to do, I had accomplished. I had wanted to know how it felt to be a hobo, a radical, a prostitute, a thief, a reformer, a social worker and a revolutionist. Now I knew. I shuddered. Yes, it was all worthwhile to me. There were no tragedies in my life. Yes, my prayers had been answered.
~Boxcar Bertha, Sister of The Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha - as told to Dr. Ben Reitman

"I'm having a bit of OCD anxiety because you don't have a Sunday quote from last week and I keep obsessively checking to see if you added it. I'm only telling you because I know you're OCD, too!" ~Michele McIntire (good lookin' out Michele)

"I wish I was a monkey." ~6-year-old, Carey Francis, watching the monkeys swing through the trees with the greatest of ease at the LA Zoo

"If my dad pukes on your back while he's spooning you, it's because he's been drinking gine."

~me to my boyfriend (fyi, "gine" is what happens when you pour gin into your glass of wine, which my father did one wild and crazy night in Idaho)