Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them. – Mark Goulston, Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior, 1996
The true man walks the earth as the stars walk the heavens, grandly obedient to those laws which are implanted in his nature. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911
People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. – Edith Wharton