Year-end thought: every ending will be followed by a new beginning. Even a sorrowful ending can be a gate to a beautiful beginning

"Strategy is the intellectual connection between ends and means" (intro Poli Sci lecture)

should be sleeping instead of thinking about the intro. Poli.Sci lecture from long ago

"I used to always think reality's my worst nightmare.Now I know the sweetest dream it could also be," -The PoeticNerd

"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!" -Robert Browning

"Don't face the world alone. Find your friends. You'll see that you're not facing the world 'cause the world is with you"

being inspired to write and hopes to follow the footsteps of Stewart O' Nan

"but politics is the art of the possible." -Paul Krugman

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." -Theodore Roosevelt

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.