Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else - Randy L. Schmidt

Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz (1939)

i was a woman. glamorous, sparkling, with eyes that shone, guarding secrets untold, lips that were petulant, pouting and bold with a body moulded to gentlemen's delight and pedicured toe-nails shining and bright. i patronized night clubs, danced until three, and hundreds of men were mad at me. then, in a panic my dream began to cool, i mashed out the cigarette and was late to school.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.