The troop whose captain is (apparently) not managing it, but whose girls manage themselves under the Scout laws, is the ideal troop.

A good shepherd has a positive influence on his people through "inward work", i.e. working on them from the inside.

Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.

And how did your day go?" I asked Ascanio. He turned to me, a dreamy look on his pretty face. "We killed things. There was blood. Fountains of blood. And then we had barbecue.

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

Be happy. It really annoys negative people.

It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry