True greatness is not measured in the glory of your victories, but in the character of your failures. Often your greatest successes are built upon a foundation of your greatest failures.

I went on a vacation with some friends recently, we stayed at the worlds worst hotel. You think I'm exaggerating, but I'm not. We reserved three sweets.
We got two sours and a tangy.

Confidence does not equate capability.

There are two ways to deal with rain, stay dry, or get so wet it doesn't matter.

"I can be passive aggressive, but I try and avoid that tendency."

"Mostly Effective Man! Moving at the speed of quick!"

Be very ware of "a little bit", after all the world is flat . . . and "a little bit".

I do because I can, I can because I do.

Let then my failing be, not that I tried too little, but that I tried too much.

This sentence has approximately seven words in it.

"Oh no! I broke the thing-a-ma-jig, now the watch-ya-ma-call-it won't work, curse you something or other!"

Things I learned from being home-schooled: "L-m-n-o-p" is not a letter.

"Faith: the realization that you can't truly "know" anything, combined with the courage to act anyway."

Persistence precedes perfection.
(Procrastination preempts both.)

I find very little use for those who only ever agree with me, and no use whatsoever for those who only ever agree with themselves.

There is no such thing as ordinary; just extraordinary taken for granted.

(Caleb) is in desperate need of a brain trust (mine's being all suspicious like).

Me: You know what I think!
Myself: No?
I: Good.

"There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who think it's "Duck, duck, grey duck;" and those who are wrong."

"Note to self: Leaving notes to yourself; not a good way to remember things!"

Life is no mystic myriad of moments,
it is an instant,
an endless action;
sliding into infinity.

"Wiki its like spellchecker . . . for your brain!"

"Knowledge - just one Wiki away!"

Plan B? Don't screw up plan A!

I was gonna get you a present, but then I realized you already have that. So I decided to get you a future instead (they were all out of past). It should be showing up right about (after) now.

"I think I would have remembered if I'd forgotten something."

I have been fortunate enough, or unfortunate depending on your views concerning bliss and ignorance. To have learned just enough to realize how truly little it is that I have learned.

Skepticism isn't bad, its just easy, and easy is very often bad.

There is no such thing as failures, just future improvements.

It's a lot easier to take a leap of faith when there's someone behind you pushing.

I like to dream with my eyes open.

Ignorance is bliss, unfortunately most people are ignorant of how blissful they should be.

If you have no solution, then silence is the answer to your problem.

I was, I am, I yet shall be. All and ever only me.

Modern poetry,
like white washed Greek columns,
is an accidental happenstance
of an eroding past.
A remnant of bad translation
run a muck.

How do you propose perfection in poetry? What measure can be made, for that made, to be unmeasurable?

So there I was, reading white space in the dark.

Now! On to phase two ... no longer being on phase one!

I'm not speaking to you until you stop not talking to me!

The soul transferred is at the heart of all arts purpose.

Never trust chuckling machine guns.

Great writers have terrible handwriting because they're more concerned with the vision then the visual.

The best teacher, provided you survive the instruction, is loss.

Life is rarely what you wish it would be, and far more often what you let it become.

Freedom is not found in the agony of choice, but in the choice of the agony.

If Necessity is the mother of Invention, then Innovation's the midwife.