--John Ruskin As human beings, we have the dichotomous psychological need to be our own indivi dual, yet we also

want to feel that we belong to and are accepted by a much larg er social set. People are willing to keep open running diaries as a way to stay connected because their ultimate desire is to feel accepted. The younger the gen eration, the less concerned they are about privacy. -Erik Qualman, Socialnomics, Chapter 1. If you can make something more relevant to me by having less privacy, well that is a small price to pay. -Bill Tancer, General Manager, Global Research, Hitwise . No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his o wn advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself. -Seneca, Epistola: Ad Lucilium, XLVIII. We have both precepts and principles in our traffic laws. The sign that reads "S peed Limit 35" is a precept. The one that reads "Drive Carefully" is a principle . And that principle will mean one thing on a deserted street at two o'clock in the morning, but something else entirely at three-thirty in the afternoon when c hildren are walking home from school. -Charles R. Swindoll, Stress Fractures, 1990. What a good country or a good squirrel should be doing is stashing away nuts for the winter. The United States is not only not saving nuts, its eating the ones l eft over from the last winter. -William H. Gross, Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government, New York Times, November 23, 2009. Pampering and never punishing will make a child crazy and unlikable, never selfcompetent. -Unknown, Becoming the Alpha Dog in Your Own Home, New York Times, N ovember 23, 2009. Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. -Jon Lithgow Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. -Charles D ickens There are too many people, and too few human beings. -Robert Zend Intelligence plus character that is the goal of true education. -Martin Luther King, Jr., Speech, Washington. March 26, 2964. Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart. -The Bible, Proverbs 29:17, English Standar d Version. If you can looke into the Seedes of Time, And say, which Graine will grow, and which will not, Speake then to me, who neyther begge, nor feare Your fauors, nor your hate. -William Shakespeare, Macbeth. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out. -C.S. Lewis, The Screwtap e Letters. A good chemist will extract some spirit or other out of every substance; and a m an of parts will, by his dexterity and management, elicit something worth knowin g out of every being he converses with. -Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His S on, 1748. Knitted together is how the psalmist described the process of God making man. Not manufactured or mass-produced, but knitted. Each thread of personality tenderl y intertwined. Each string of temperament deliberately selected. -Max Lucado, Six Hours One Friday. How easy to be spoiled . . . presumptuous . . . sassy . . . ungrateful . . . whe n our spiritual stomachs are full! Funny thing---those who are full usually want more. We belch out increased demands rather than humble gratitude to God for ou r horn o' plenty. -Charles R. Swindoll, Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life. Get involved so that you care about things. When something has meaning to you, y ou are more likely to remember it than to recall information that is not relevan t to your daily life. -Ellen J. Langer, Bottom Line Secrets, To Live a Longer and Healthier Life. On a recent Wednesday afternoon at the Makowski center, Buffalos Public School 99 , Pat Andzel asked her preschool class a question: How many did you count? She had

drilled them on the number seven. She held up a sign with 7 and asked her student s what number they saw (seven!); had the group jump seven times, counting; then ha d them touch their nose seven times. As the class finished counting seven object s on a poster, she asked again: How many? I never used to ask that, Ms. Andzel said in an interview after the lesson. She asks it all the time now, she said, becaus e it drives home a subtle but crucial idea: that the last number they said in co unting is the quantity; it is the answer. -Benedict Carey, New York Times, Stud ying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them, December 21, 2009. To be a man among men, to be a man always, not to allow oneself to be broken, to fall this is life's goal and meaning. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Writer's Life. You will ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty; the y come unsummoned, directly, indirectly,--I could seize them with my hands,--out in the open air; in the woods; while walking; in the silence of the nights; ear ly in the morning; incited by moods, which are translated by the poet into words , by me into tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. -Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven: the Man and the Artist. Hey, that's smart! If you want to make a counterfeit dollar bill, you don't use yellow construction paper, cut it in the shape of a triangle, put the Lone Range r's picture in the center, and stamp "3" on each corner. That deceives nobody. D eception comes in convincing fashion, wearing the garb of authenticity, supporte d by the credentials of intelligence, popularity, and even a touch of class. Charles R. Swindoll, Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life. Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. -Geoffrey Chaucher, Canterbury Ta les. The Frankeleines Tale. Line 11789. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, a nd it is the future. -Alfred North Whitehead Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak . . . In communism, ineq uality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. -Pierre-Jose ph Proudhon The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. - Katherine Paterson, Gates of Excellence: On Reading and Writing Books for Chil dren.