Tidbits & Quotes: October 2004

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Lately, your low self-esteem is just good common sense.

People who seized the opportunity and took the money are alive now.
When markets present supply-demand imbalances, you've got to take
advantage of those.

A great teacher has little external history to record. His life goes over into other lives. These men are pillars in the intimate structure of our schools. They are more essential than its stones or beams, and they will continue to be a kindling force and a revealing power in our lives.

Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you?

The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one, and it would not be a wasted life.

It is possible to commit no mistakes -- and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is "life".

Emperor Meiji: Tell me how he died.
Algren: I will tell you how he lived.