The Close of Volume 4

Here's the latest from the April 1st Project. Finished another volume. Now on Journal #5. Each volume is thicker than the last. So much to capture...

April 1st on August 2nd

Here we go:

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

-- da Vinci

Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you are right.

-- Henry Ford

The real purpose of the scientific method 

is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you 

into thinking you know something that you actually don't.

-- Robert Pirsig

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, 

but he who is glad cannot weep.

-- Selma Lagerlof

There are three things extremely hard: 

steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

-- Benjamin Franklin

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

-- Franz Grillparzer

How can you say luck and chance are the same thing? 

Chance is the first step you take, 

luck is what comes afterwards.

-- Amy Tan

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

-- Elizabeth Goudge

Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations --

six if one went to Harvard.

-- Edgar R. Fielder

I learned that you shouldn't go through life 

with a catchers mitt on both hands.

You need to be able to throw something back.

-- Maya Angelou

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, 

nothing is going to get better.

It's not.

-- Dr. Seuss

A Few Current and Recent Inspirations

Here's a short list of current and recent inspirations -- mainly books: