Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. – Jacob A. Riis
Religion is run by thought police. Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Dont ask questions. Go die for your country. The spirituality says, Okay, you can die for your country, but know what youre doing while youre doing it. – Tommy Chong
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. – Calvin Coolidge, 1927
