“ I've always thought that you just make everything as best as you can, and then, one day, people will look objectively at what you do, from a distance, and see its quality. All you try to do is keep the standard up so that, one day, when I sit back and I look at it all, I can feel really good about it. Gavin Rossdale Musician
“ Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely. Charles M. Schulz Cartoonist
“ In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be. Haruki Murakami Writer
“ We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise — we are already wise. Chogyam Trungpa Teacher
“ Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world. Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President