There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton Category: Perspective
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. – Robert Benchley, Benchley — or Else! Category: Perspective
Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes. – Sonya Hartnett Category: Perspective
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. – William Hazlitt, Sketches and Essays, 1839 Category: Perspective
Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership. – Thomas Menino Category: Leadership
Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming. – Jerry Stahl Category: Rumi
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Freedom
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin Category: Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity