"Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life."

“My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.”

“When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.”

“The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.”

“Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century.”

“Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.”

“We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.”

“A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.”

Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

“Uniting two halves of one soul is inevitable, but timing depends upon your level of spirituality. When the time is ripe, true soul mates find one another even if they are worlds apart— whether physically, on opposite sides of the globe, or spiritually, with contrasting lifestyles and backgrounds. Here’s wishing you the courage to keep growing so that you may know – or continue to know – the blessing of oneness.”