Strive to Begin

Perenial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.
— Henry Beard, Gardening

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion.
— Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible — not to run away.
— Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
— Konrad Adenauer

Success isn't final.
Failure isn't fatal.
— Anonymous

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
— Richard Harkness, New York Herald Tribune, 6-15-60.


A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras

With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome, and you sing well too.
— Yiddish Proverb

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
— Disiderius Erasmus

Bad movies, bad television, fine. But I require more from the printed page.
— Maureen Howard, New York Times Book Review, 4-25-92.

Don't worry. Life's too long.
— Vincent Sardi Jr.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan