"Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative."
— Oscar Wilde

"Butterflies are self propelled flowers. "
— R.H. Heinlein

"I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you."
— Annie Dillard

"Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you"
— Annie Dillard

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few."
— Emily Dickinson (The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."
— Roger Caras

"For Equilibrium, a Blessing:
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.

As the wind loves to call things to dance,
May your gravity by lightened by grace.

Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,
May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.

As water takes whatever shape it is in,
So free may you be about who you become.

As silence smiles on the other side of what's said,
May your sense of irony bring perspective.

As time remains free of all that it frames,
May your mind stay clear of all it names.

May your prayer of listening deepen enough
to hear in the depths the laughter of god."
— John O'Donohue (To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Invocations and Blessings)

"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space."
— Orson Scott Card

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
— Frank Zappa

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away."
— Henry David Thoreau