Feb., 2014

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. -Anais Nin, writer (1903-1977)

I and the public know. 

What all schoolchildren learn. 

Those to whom evil is done. 

Do evil in return -W.H. Auden, poet (1907-1973)

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. -Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (1809-1865)

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. -Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist (1795-1881)

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. -James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)

Jan., 2014

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. ~Donald H. Rumsfeld

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries -- Aldous Huxley

I am so stunned by my prosperity that my happiness has begun to make me anxious -- Urdu Couplet

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. -Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher (1861-1947)

Never confuse motion with action. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

Aey naey saal bata tujh mein naya kya hai? Har taraf khalq ne kiyun shor macha rakha hai, Roshni din ki wahi, Taron bhari raat wohi, Aaj humko nazar aati hai har baat wohi, Aasman badla hai na badli hai afsurda zameen, Aik hinsey ka badalna koi jiddat to nahi, Pichley barson ki tarha honge qareeney teray, Be sabab detay hain kiyun log mubarak badein, Sub kya bhool gaye waqt ki karrwi yadein, Tu naya hai to dikha subha nai, sham nai, Werna in aankhon ne deikhay hain naey saal kai. (Faiz Ahmed Faiz)