"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."

Francois de la Rouchefoucauld

"If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever."

Winnie the Pooh

"Sex and the City is to feminism what sugar is to dental care. The first clue is in the opening credits of the television show. Carrie is standing in a New York street in a ballet skirt, the sort that toddlers wear. She is dressed, unmistakably, as a child. And, because she is sex columnist on a newspaper, a bus wearing a huge photo of her in a tiny dress trundles past. ‘Carrie Bradshaw knows good sex,’ says the bus. And there, before any dialogue hits your ears, you have the two woeful female archetypes that Sex and the City loves — woman as sex object and woman as child."

Tanya Gold

Japanese Gardens — Portland, Oregon

"A wise man once told me that we are all God in drag. I like that. Sometimes when I’m in a public place or sitting at a stop light, I’ll watch people walking by and I’ll silently say to myself, “He’s God. She’s God. He’s God. She’s God.” Before long I always find myself feeling a warm sense of affinity for these strangers. The experience is even more powerful when I do this while observing a person who is clearly suffering. On occasion I’ll test my little spiritual practice by turning on Fox News. Within minutes I become an atheist."

Church Lorre, Vanity Card #240

Colored Houses on a Canal - Burano, Italy (by Keith Goodwin)

Avengers USB Sticks

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew."

Abraham Lincoln

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”

– Sir Ken Robinson