It wasn’t the New World that mattered … Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It’s life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
~ James Baldwin
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One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.
~ Mark Twain
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“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
~ Sun Tzu
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.
~ Janet Malcolm
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The more I detest men individually the more ardent
becomes my love for humanity.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one’s own sensitivity with the suffering of one’s fellow human beings.
~ Rollo May
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If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.
~ William Gibson
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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