A a r o n T a t e

		I may have known only a few chords--but they were the right ones (Patti Smith, songwriter)
	People always ask me if the universities stifle writers. It is my opinion that they don't stifle enough of them. (Flannery O'Connor, novelist)



These days it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk to them. (Mother Theresa, nun)
		"Did you ever observe to whom accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind" (Louis Pasteur, scientist)

	Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It’s our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be--you are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some; it is in everyone, and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. (Nelson Mandela, politician)

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul (Edward Abbey, essayist)

		When you deal with the inneffible, you have to write a lot (Thomas Hopka, theologian)

	'Cause the world owes me nothing. We owe each other the world. (Ani Difranco, songwriter)