We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan, Thoughts in a Dry Season Category: Labor
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. Its that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, thats what the poet does. – Allen Ginsberg Category: Poetry
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. – George Bernard Shaw Category: Success
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. – Billy Graham Category: strength
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. – Robert Bork Category: Society
