Poem For The Day

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are,
Because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.
I'd rather be a has been than a might-have-been, by far,
For a might-have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
- Milton Berle -

Thought For The Day

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde -

Thought For The Day

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.
- Joyce Brothers -

It's All Up To You

"Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and the movements and changes in the world around him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, 'This I am today; that I will be tomorrow.' The wish however, must be implemented by deeds.
- Louis L'Amour -

Thought For The Day

Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart.
- Public Enemy, "He Got Game" -

Thought For The Day

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.
- Lou Holtz -

What's The Use Of Climbing Mount Everest

"The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, what is the use of climbing Mount Everest? And my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, not any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challange of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for."
- George Mallory -