Wise words: Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered "five," Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.

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Aisling: (Irish: aislinn; pronounced ASH-ling): A vision poem.

In an aisling, the island of Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, sometimes young and beautiful, sometimes old and haggard. This female figure is generally referred to in the poems as An Spéirbhean (the sky-woman).
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Words should be scattered like seed; no matter how small the seed may be, if it has once found favorable ground, it unfolds its strength. —Seneca, Roman rhetorician, 65 A.D.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Towne v. Eisner, 245 US 418, 425 (1918)

"Love one another." Hari's last words.

“Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.” - John Donne, 1572-1631, English Poet

"A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses" - G.B. Shaw, 1856-1950, British Dramatist

"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "because I'm not myself, you see." Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures Under Ground (1864).

"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely [to the White Rabbit], "and go on till you come to the end: then stop." Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. —Frank Zappa, Chicago Tribune, 1978

''Expressing the will of the people, the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian Republic declares and solemnly proclaims the restoration of the exercise of sovereign powers of the Lithuanian state, which were annulled by an alien power in 1940. From now on, Lithuania is once again an independent state.'' -Resolution approved by the Lithuanian parliament, March 12, 1990

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. — Friedrich Nietzsche, sometime in the latter 1800s