Here's a quote by Joseph Pulitzer, yes, of the Prize:

"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."

This came from the AhQuotes list.

Just a thought occured to me this morning as I sat eating my pãozinho and drinking my peach tea:

Gratitude is never redundant.

To be grateful always for the same things is good, and to express that gratitude frequently is always welcome.

Here's a quote from Aeschylus' "Eumenides":

. . . Justice gives thee
A realm to share, a rich inheritance,
And nothing of thine honor takes away.

I missed it, but Vicki got to attend our closed community's official meeting this afternoon. Plenty of complaints, few suggestions, as per the human condition. Cleber told me today, when I took the kids to catch the bus to camp, that he recently witnessed a vote against more help by people who wouldn't lift a finger to do anything themselves.

Lesson on humanity number next: Button your lips, and do something constructive.

they say, do it yourself. But I imagine that, in this case, at least, right is in the eye of the doer. Nobody will cross the "t's" and dot the "i's" exactly like you. Whoever invented the original phrase must have been a perfectionist afraid of delegating anything.