Sept/Oct 2002
Poems & Quotes

I have lived on the lip of insanity
knocking on the door.
It opens.
I have been knocking from the inside.

–Jalal al'Din Rumi
translated by Coleman Barks

Any person
who recognizes
this greatest power...
the power to choose,
begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing
and that friends,
although they mean well,
cannot do his choosing for him. Consequently,
he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability,
upon his own action, and upon his own initiative. ––J. Martin Kohe

"Strategic planning is worthless -- unless there is first
a strategic vision."
–John Naisbitt

"The tree in which the sap
is stagnant remains fruitless."
–Hosea Ballou

"Everyone
has an invisible sign
hanging from their neck
saying,
'Make me feel important.'
Never
forget this message
when working with people."
–Mary Kay

"Nobody
can be so amusingly arrogant
as a young man
who has just discovered
an old idea
and thinks it is his own."
–Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986)
US journalist, author

"He who gives when he is asked has waited too long."
–Sunshine Magazine

"If you can't feed
a hundred people,
then feed just one."
–Mother Teresa

"How far
that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed
in a weary world."
–William Shakespeare

"There is no meaning to life
except the meaning
man gives his life
by the unfolding of his powers."
–Erich Fromm (1900-1980)

You are the person
who has to decide.
Whether you'll do it
or toss it aside;

You are the person
who makes up your mind.
Whether you'll lead
or will linger behind.

Whether you'll try
for the goal that's afar.
Or just be contented
to stay where you are.
–Edgar A. Guest

"Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong."
–James Leo Herlihy

"Act as if what you do
makes a difference. It does."
–William James

"Go confidently
in the direction
of your dreams.
Live the life
you have imagined."
–Henry David Thoreau