Deliberation. The act of examining ones bread to determine which side it is buttered on. – Ambrose Bierce
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. – Ambrose Bierce

Deliberation. The act of examining ones bread to determine which side it is buttered on. – Ambrose Bierce
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. – Ambrose Bierce
Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. – Ambrose Bierce
Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. – Ambrose Bierce
Im in a period of growth and expansion. Im taking long, hard looks at the world and whats happening in it, analyzing and thinking. Im trying to become acquainted with the universe — with the part of it I occupy — and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is. – Gene Roddenberry
The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. – Leonard Cohen