I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. – Wendell Berry, “The Peace of Wild Things”
My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. Theres a lot of that in Silicon Valley. – Mark Zuckerberg
The essential elements of giving are power and love – activity and affection – and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. – Mark Hopkins