"I love a lot of people, understand none of them."

-- Flannery O'Connor

“Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.”
“Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.”
“Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.”
“Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.”
“It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race from whatever burden or oppression they may unjustly labor under.”
“Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tranquility and peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence.”
“David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.”
“Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.”

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