There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. – M. Scott Peck
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. – Irving Babbitt
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. – Wallace Stevens
