A World

A world of made is not a world of born.

--e.e. cummings

All Your Questions

In the solitude of your mind are the answers to all your questions about life. You must take the time to ask and listen.

--Bawa Mahaiyaddeen

Food

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Let The Reader Catch

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

--Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart

A Pack

History is, after all, only a pack of tricks we play on the dead.

--Voltaire

Finished

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

--Benjamin Franklin

Closest Non-Human Relationship

A home is often the closest non-human relationship we have in our lives. It can represent your identity, your autonomy, your spirituality.

--Lois Vitt

Another Language

To know another language is to have a second soul.

--Charlemagne

More Than Human

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human.

--Thomas Jefferson

Vanity Swells

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain--at least in a poor country like Russia--and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

--Leon Trotsky

Comments, Facts

Comments are free, but facts are sacred.

--Charles Prestwich Scott

The Trouble

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

--Will Durant

Take It

Take it easy, but take it.

--Anonymous

A Full Hour

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

--St. Francis de Sales

Affects All

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sexual Orgies

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

--Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

Understand Everything

It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.

--Rene Coty

Memory

As a protection against financial illusion or insanity, memory is far better than law. When the memory of the 1929 disaster failed, law and regulation no longer sufficed.

--John Kenneth Galbraith

Mystify

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

--Douglas Adams

Brothers and Sisters

Historians and novelists are kin, but they're more like brothers who throw food at each other than like sisters who borrow each other's clothes.

--Jill Lepore