To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881 Category: Miscellaneous
The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted. – Donald Barthelme Category: Miscellaneous
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. – André Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1925 Category: Miscellaneous
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. – Frederic Chopin Category: Miscellaneous
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. – Reinhold Niebuhr Category: power
You know, you dont retreat in the defense of freedom. You dont retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You dont retreat because people are going to defend bad things. – Russell Pearce Category: Freedom