“Be regular and ordinary in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” – Gustave Flaubert
“Endurance is more important than truth.” – Charles Bukowski
“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.” – Jack Gilbert
“How do you like your blue-eyed boy/Mister Death” – E.E. Cummings
“Against the evidence, I live by choice.” – David Ignatow
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.” – Albert Camus
“And you will come to find/that we are all one mind/Capable of all that’s imagined and all conceivable/So let the light touch you/So let the words spill through/And let them pass right through/Bringing out our hope and reason – Reflection Tool
“Remember most that everything/I have told you might very well/amount to everything/Or/Perhaps nothing. But be most thankful, son,/If in autumn you can still manage a smile.” – Gordon Parks