Shadow Footprints

Faith means not wanting to know what is true.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."

-- Alfred Whitney Griswold

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

-- Omar Khayyam

"Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed."

-- Germaine Greer

"It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny."

-- Anthony Robbins

"Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time."

-- Alvin Toffler

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers."

-- Charles W. Eliot