"The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead."
~Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1972- )

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true."
~Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1938- )

"It takes a certain maturity of mind to accept that nature works as steadily in rust as in rose petals."
~Esther Warner Dendel, writer and artist (1910-2002)