One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether ones heart is on earth or in heaven. – Pir Vilayat Khan
The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises — it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go. – Gertrude Stein
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. – Renata Adler