Target Points

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
— Chinese Proverb

Who ever praises the man who never took up cigarette smoking to begin with, and thus was never obliged to quit?
— Ned Rorem

A very remarkable woman whom I know lost her husband. They had been very much in love and extremely happy. When I saw her some weeks later she radiated a tranquility and confidence which was inspiring. I asked her how she had achieved it. She said, "All the water in the world cannot sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. All the sorrow in the world cannot sink a person unless it gets inside the mind. I have kept my mind so full of good thoughts, so full of thoughts of others, that there hasn't been any room for sorrow and self-pity to get in."
— Mary Pickford, Why Not Try God?

Oh go through the walls; if you must, walk on the ledges
Of roofs, of oceans; cover yourself with light;
Use menace, use prayer....
My sleepers will flee toward another America.
— Jean Genet

Love at first sight is easy to understand. It's when two people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes a miracle.
— Sam Levenson

I hate faces that have no questioning in them, no quest for wanting to learn more, look at more, see more, be more!
— Maria Tallchief

What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
— George Eliot

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
— John Morley

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe — you can't take a taxi.
— Alan Alda

Man needs to suck his breath in sharply now and then, to stand with jaw agape and see with childlike eyes.
— National Geographic

There's a lot of good ideas in a pint of whiskey — not so many in a quart.
— Woody Guthrie