Live, and be happy, and make others so.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

I try very hard to be annoying! Don't insult my ability to annoy!

Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be told in times to come.

This ain't my first rodeo!".~R. Alan Woods [1999]

Destruction is like a snow-ball rolled down a Hill, for its Bulk encreases by its own swiftness and thus Disorder spreads.

There is a good deal too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened.

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others.

You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.