this one's for Miss M...

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli

this one reminds me of my bro....

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. ~Author Unknown

for shlam...

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ~Alice Walker

this one reminds me of bev...

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anaïs Nin

this one reminds me of myself about 15 years ago...I was the second kind I think...

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself. ~Roscoe Snowden

and so I leave you with this...

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson