Category: Thought of the Day

"All saints are guilty until proven innocent"

—George Orwell (via KQED’s Forum)

"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks."

—Daniel Boone (via The Writer’s Almanac)

"We could stretch our legs if we’d half a mind
But don’t disturb us if you hear us trying
To instigate the structure of another line or two
Cause writing’s lighting up
And I like life enough to see it through."

—Elton John

(Thought of after guest speaking to my friend Victoria’s UCLA writing class. Thanks for having me everyone!)

"So when you reach the bottom line
The only thing to do is climb
Pick yourself up off the floor
Anything you want is yours."

—Big Audio Dynamite

"There is nothing easier than denouncing the evil doer, nothing more difficult than understanding him."

—Fydor Dostoevsky (via Criminal Minds)

"I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so."

—Oscar Wilde (on his birthday).

"Education is not meant to turn men into carpenters but carpenters into men."

—W.E.B Du Bois

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in
which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing
which you think you cannot do."

—Eleanor Roosevelt (whose birthday is today).

"You never when you’ve had enough until you’ve had more than enough."

—William Blake.

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."

–Brendan Gill (via The Writer Almanac).