Physical courage....

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

- Mark Twain -

In memory of my cousin....

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci -

When you travel ......

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

- Clifton Fadiman -

Do not spoil.....

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

- Epicurus -

I've arrived at this....

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.

-Alice Koller-

Our lives improve...

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

- Walter Anderson -