"One corpse in a well destroys the viability of the well."

“The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.”

Source : John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.431

“Civilization after civilization, it is the same.  The world falls to tyranny with a whisper.  The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability.  In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with.  There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue.  The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin.  And people die.”

“Marshall McLuhan prediction was some kind of electronic communication technology would emerge to instantaneously connect the world so much so that the whole globe would be like a village.”

“At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.”

“Not really a first thing I will buy, but the first thing I would do is take care of my mother and my family and then go from there. Whatever she needs. Not so much a house or car or material things, just making sure everything is taken care of from a family standpoint.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com

“The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul”

“I was never pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I was never quirky enough to be the quirky girl. Boys didn't look at me in high school and think I was the pretty girl.”

“At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, "How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?" He answered, "All of them." I wasn't surprised. But, just the same, it was kind of spooky, because not one of them had ever given me the faintest sign that he or she knew. If I had spoken about it myself, most of them would have felt it was in bad taste.”