September 17, 2011

Just remember there is no true shining knight, not in the sense that women look for.  What comes riding along is more like Don Quixote.  His armour is battered, misshapen, scratched, he wears a shaving basin for a helmet; however, it is his spirit that shines like a true knight. ~ John Rabon

August 08, 2011

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ~ Albert Einstein

October 25, 2010

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.  He is immortal, not because he alone has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.  The poet's, the writer's duty is to write about these things.  It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honour and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past.  The poet's voice need not be merely the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. ~ William Faulkner (from his Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech)