Lolly Daskal

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.

True freedom is being free from the search for freedom.

I don’t let go of concepts – I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

Not only can you not plan the impact you’re going to have, you often won’t recognize it when you’re having it.

This is not new territory. Stop lights like lullabies write my eulogy.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

If only I had known then the speed with which she could die, maybe I wouldn’t have become the hemlock.

I never apologize. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am.

I have 100 percent Bronx pride like it’s a country like I AM the Bronx.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

This morning I woke with my ear pressed between shoulder blades. Every inhale, every drum, every pump, thump of your heartbeat said one thing – home, home, home.

No dog ever peed on a moving car.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possesion, a duty.