Category: Quotations

You can’t wait for inspiration.  You have to go after it with a club.Jack London (1876 – 1916)

Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.  When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.Bill Moyers, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 30 Jan 2005

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, nor is it a method of achieving anything at all.  It is peace and blessedness itself.  It is the actualization of wisdom, the ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.Dogen

The Secret Service took my client’s hard drive and came up with the fact that it was infected.Ralph Patino, the lawyer for a Miami businessman who has sued Bank of America to recover $90,000 he says was stolen from his account after his PC was infected with a keystroke-logging virus

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.Dr. Seuss

We have too many high-sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.Abigail Adams (1744-1818), letter to John Adams, 1774