Leonardo, Self Portrait

Here is a list of all past quotations to appear on this site:

  • "'Love' is just the name we give to the desire and pursuit of wholeness. We human beings will never attain happiness unless we find perfect love, unless we come across the love of our lives and thereby recover our original nature." --Plato, The Symposium
  • "Sitting on the side, waiting for a sign, hoping that my luck will change. Reaching for a hand that can understand, someone who feels the same. When you live in a cookie cutter world, being different is a sin. So you don't stand out. And you don't fit in. Weird." --Hanson, "Weird"
  • "Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear too calm and sad a face in front of thine; For we two look two ways, and cannot shine with the same sunlight on our brow and hair." --Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Sonnet XV ("Sonnets from the Portuguese")
  • "Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen." --"Glory to the Father" [Christmas quotation]
  • "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." --Henry David Thoreau, Walden
  • "Well, doctor, my mother always used to say, 'Elwood,' - she always called me Elwood - 'Elwood, in this world you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me." --Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) from Harvey (play by Mary Chase)
  • "From on high the beauty of creation is seen with great clarity, the smallness but at the same time greatness of man, all of which manifests the infinite power and wisdom of the Creator. May this daily experience be a source of consolidation and renewal in the faith. May it constantly revive your confidence in God's love." --Pope John Paul II to 4,000 employees of LOT Polish Airlines
  • "My reward is the feeling that I have contributed to cleansing public affairs, to have significantly contributed to transforming the city we already loved into a city we love even more. A city that those of foreign lands have learned to discover, by coming here or from afar, and from having accentuated its international vocation, open to the universal, open to the world and upon the world." -- Former Montréal major Jean Drapeau, on his resignation in 1986 [Appearing just after his death and around the time of my last trip there]
  • "This beats the Millenium Falcon any day." -- Captain Richard about the 727 [Actually uttered to me.]
  • "The apparition of these faces in the crowd / Petals on a wet, black bough." -- Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro"
  • "Just watch me." -- Pierre Trudeau to a reporter, October 13, 1970

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