Incapable

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
--Blaise Pascal

Creative

The longer we fight the creative destruction of the marketplace by resuscitating dying companies, the slower our ability to shift capital to truly creative sectors in the economy will be.
--Eliot Spitzer

Real

Everything you can imagine is real.
--Pablo Picasso

Repair

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
--John F. Kennedy

Attachments

From the moment we're born we face a troubling paradox: Life is made interesting, fun, and happy by the attachments we form, but the loss of these same attachments lies as the root cause of our worst pain in life.
--Alex Lickerman

Meet Girls

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life--so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
--M. Cartmill

Mostly

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
--Michael Pollan

Mistakes

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
--Josh Billings

Revenge

Progress is so often revenge on the past.
--Verlyn Klinkenborg

Passing Time

As far as I can tell, this is how to live--to value the passing time.
--Roger Rosenblatt

Contraption

A baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.
--Michael Chabon