"There are in the Middle East today two challenging ideas: old and new. The old ideas will vanish because they are weak and exhausted."–1920's—Kahlil Gibran
"Optimism is a great thing-even if it takes a while to bear fruit!" –RJB-
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."–A. Einstein
"The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction."–Bernard Malamud