“Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.”

– Voltaire

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.

– Lillian Hellman (1905 – 1984), letter to Committee on Un-American Activities
of the House of Representatives, May 19, 1952

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

– Joseph Campbell

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

– Rita Mae Brown

I stumbled upon this quote in an article in the travel section of the SF Chronicle on Sunday:

Caminante, no hay camino – se hace camino al andar. (Walker, there is no road. You make your own road as you go.)

-Antonio Machado, Andalusian poet