"Don't dream it, be it"
-Rocky Horror Picture Show

"Stoë Orkeo!"
-Moebius

"Seek not to imitate the master, rather seek that which the master seeks."
-unattributed Zen Buddhist saying

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.”
- John Ruskin

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one."
-John Ruskin

"To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer."
"Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life."
- The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone

"The world has no existence whatsoever outside the human imagination. It's all a ghost, and in antiquity was so recognized as a ghost, the whole blessed world we live in."
- Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

"The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not."
- Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music he hears,
however measured or far away."
-Henry David Thoreau

"All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost."
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

“It is the job that is never started that takes longest to finish.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien

"A job begun is a job half done."
-Mary Poppins

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
Robert A. Heinlein

"Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before."
Joseph Campbell

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.


"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.


`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

-Lewis Carrol