"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed

by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbour.

Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore.  Dream.  Discover.

-Mark Twain-

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

- Henry Ward Beecher -

"Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled-- to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.  I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.  I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing-- that the light is everything-- that it is more than the sum of each flawed blossom rising and fading.  And I do."

- Mary Oliver,  House of Light -                                                                 

"Go where your best prayers take you."

- Frederick Buechner -