while spring cleaning a couple of days ago, i relocated a notebook full of quotations i had jotted down over the years. there are many i still like --

All men should try to learn before they die
What they are running from, and to, and why ~~ James Thurber

No matter how well you perform there's always someone of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy. ~~ Sir Laurence Olivier

The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that every saint has a past, every sinner a future. ~~ Oscar Wilde

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and as ute as stones, our very passivity would be an act. ~~Jean Paul Sartre

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times it is the only time we have ~~Art Buchwald