I tried to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

(Maxine Hong Kingston)

The book cannot be what the writer is not.

(C.S. Lewis)

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.

(Madeleine L'Engle)

If victory is the notion of no enemy, then the whole world is a friend. That seems to be the warrior’s philosophy. The true warrior is not like somebody carrying a sword and looking behind his own shadow, in case somebody is lurking there. That is the setting-sun warrior’s point of view, which is an expression of cowardice. The true warrior always ( Read more... )