Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality. ~Eli Khamarov, "Lives of the Cognoscenti" I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of…

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so…

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since. ~Arturo Toscanini To cease smoking is the easiest thing…

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.…

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. ~Friedrich Nietzsche If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there…

It's only a matter of inches, but skipping gets me just that much closer to heaven. ~Jessi Lane Adams If you've lost your enthusiasm, there's no better place to find…

Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads. ~Author Unknown Stretch pants - the garment that made skiing a spectator sport. ~Author Unknown There are really only three things…

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there. ~Amy Li A sister is a little…

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. ~Maya Angelou He who sings frightens away his ills. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote…

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993 To poke a wood fire is more solid…