"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place."

---Washington Irving

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."
(Robert Cardinal Bellarmine / 1542-1621 / at the trial of Galileo in 1615)

"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

To love is to be vulnerable"

-- C.S. Lewis

"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?" -- Jane Austen

It may be true that I am not as good as I once was,
But I am as good once as I ever was

I know I already have one for today, but I was reminded tonight of one of my all time favorite novels...

"In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the
boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is
where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman, the young
falcon, together with his friend Govinda, son of a Brahman."

-- Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

"I would rather wrap myself in the constitution and burn the flag than wrap myself in the flag and burn the constitution." - Unknown

To be honest, I don't know. I got it in an email.

That's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise.

~Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter in The Apartment