Undisguised

"I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,: I am mad for it to be in contact with me."

---Walt Whitman

Excellence

"With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must also try to have and use it."

---Aristotle


photo: screen legend Yul Brynner

Devotion

"I am devoted to masturbation. I think it's probably one of the most pleasurable experiences in life. I had and have no guilt whatsoever when it comes to pleasuring myself."

---Gloria Stewart, the actress who played 'The Old Lady' in James Cameron's "Titanic".

Priorities

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes."

---Desiderius Erasmus

Human Freedoms

"The last of human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances; to choose one's own way."

---Viktor Frankl

Perseverance

"We go on. Because it's the hard thing to do. And we owe ourselves the difficulty."

---Nikki Giovanni

Yesterday

"It's never too late to be what you might have been."

---Farmer's Almanac, 1995