the Human Trinity Muse

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

To play it safe is not to play

~ Robert Altman

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome

~ Anne Bradstreet

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know

~ Joanna Field

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it

~ L. M. Montgomery

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity

~ Irving Wallace

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are

~ Amy Bloom

Dreams are...


...illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you

~ Marsha Norman

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate
~ Margaret Cho

It doesn't matter if you win or lose in the big, scary jungle of the real world. Winners and losers... Enemies and allies... We don't live in a comic book! This is the real deal
~Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

“If we don’t know enough to start fashioning legislative solutions, then I don’t think we know enough to start drilling”
~Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) ...in response to the stalling of legislation to protect the environment by curbing drilling:


“I question the need for the haste ... when we don’t have all the facts in front of us”
- Michael Burgess (R-Texas)

“I am all for improving the safety of offshore drilling, but we should wait for the investigations to be concluded before we prematurely pass legislation..."
- Fred Upton (R-Mich.)