"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered
by failure . . . than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer
much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
The Bridge at Argenteuil, Claude Monet (1874)
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--click here for a special thank you (circa June 2003)--
You are so
young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear
sir, to be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to
love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written
in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to
you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live
everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without
noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
--Rainer Maria Rilke
Last updated: November 20, 2005
