FAITH is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell. Ram Dass
BUT I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything. Alan Watts
THE best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Law grinds the poor and rich men rule the law.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone — regardless of the past or future.
Oliver Goldsmith 1730-1774 “The Vicar of Wakefield”
EVERY TRUE GENIUS IS BOUND TO BE NAIVE.
VOTES SHOULD BE WEIGHED NOT COUNTED.
MANKIND IS MADE GREAT OR LITTLE BY ITS OWN WILL.
HONESTY PROSPERS IN EVERY CONDITION OF LIFE.
TO SAVE ALL WE MUST RISK ALL.
THE WILL OF MAN IS HIS HAPPINESS.
THEY WOULD NEED TO BE ALREADY WISE IN ORDER TO LOVE WISDOM.
POWER IS THE MOST PERSUASIVE RHETORIC.
NOTHING LEADS TO GOOD THAT IS NOT NATURAL
AGAINST STUPIDITY THE VERY GODS THEMSELVES CONTEND IN VAIN.
THE VOICE OF THE MAJORITY IS NO PROOF OF JUSTICE.
REVENGE is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder and its end is despair.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER 1759-1805 “Intrigue and Love” “The Robbers”
NOTHING GOOD EVER COMES FROM VIOLENCE. Martin Luther
TO SUFFER ONE’S CONFUSION IS THE FIRST STEP IN HEALING.
EVERY PERSON must live the inner life in one form or another.
ROBERT A. JOHNSON
We are what we pretend to be — so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
You meet saints everywhere. they can be anywhere. They are people b having decently in an indecent society. KURT VONNEGUT
Life is like a bicycle. to keep balance you must keep moving. Albert Einstein
TRUE artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. A. Rodin
TENSION IS THE CORNERSTONE OF ANY GOOD STORY. ERIC NYLUND
THE KEY TO CHANGE IS TO LET GO OF FEAR. ROSANNE CASH
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages. TRUTH IS THE ONLY SAFE GROUND TO STAND ON.
Elizebeth Cody Stanton
The purpose of propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human. Aldous Huxley
It is a tragedy that we live in a word where physical courage is so common and moral courage is so rare. To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at. CLAUDE MONET
STUPIDITY is a good strategy for survival. Our level of intelligence could be a maladaptation, a wrong turn, an aberration.
Louise Erdrich “Future Home of the Living God”
IT IS ONLY WEN WE FORGET ALL OUR LEARNING THAT WE BEGIN TO KNOW.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
IT’S A QUEER THING but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.
We are never happy util we learn to laugh at ourselves. Dorothy Dix
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
He IS THE TRUE ENCHANTER WHOSE SPELL OPERATES, NOT ON THE SENSES, BUT UPON THE IMAGINATION AND THE HEART. Washington Irving
If wrinkles be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The Spirit should never grow old. James A. Garfield
A GOVERNMENT is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. Max Weber
There’s an immense sweetness to Ed Korens’ personality that radiates through his work. This was not an acerbic comic spirit. He had a very different sensibility. There was a real soulfulness to everything he did. David Remnick