Jud

“As a lamp, a cataract, a star in space
an illusion, a dewdrop, a bubble
a dream, a cloud, a flash of lightning
view all created things like this.”
― Red Pine, The Diamond Sutra

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

“There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World