"We believe that serving our passengers is paramount. It is the core of what we are. But should a pasenger cause trouble, become obnoxious or is disrespectful of our staff. That passenger will never fly our airline again."

Herbert D. Kelleher
President, Pacific Southwest Airlines

"I give myself very good advice...but I very seldom follow it"

~Alice

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
~paulo friere

Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.~ Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Felices ter et amplius
quos inrupta tenet copula nec malis
divolsus querimoniis
suprema citius solvet amor die

Thrice happy they, and even more
whose bond unbroken holds
and whose love untorn by bad complaints
separates no sooner than the final day.

Horace Ode I.13

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Johann von Goethe

Words - so innocent and powerless are they, as standing in a dictionary; how potent for good and evil they become to one who knows how to combine them!

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
- Marcus Aurelius


Colly - I love your quotation (above)

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther."
~Ludwig Van Beethoven

I long for eternity because there I shall meet my unwritten poems and my unpainted pictures.

Kahlil Gibran in Sand and Foam

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
-Buddha

"The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love."

Yevgeny Zamyatin

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. Victor Hugo

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the nation that sets it forth.
~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

"Thou art an echoing silence
which deafens me in this earthly void."

by: someone we all know

Sometimes I feel that this statement is true, and sometimes I stand with my beliefs... either way, it's wonderfully written.

- sage

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
— George Washington

Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday.
~Steven Wright



( Happy Birthday August- Love Auntie Pam )

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

-Patrick Henry

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."
~ John Lubbock