"We all have the capacity to find the will to do what must be done - even when that which we must do terrifies us most. Remember this."

“There's a champion in all of us, it's how you choose to find it.”

“The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates an inner experience for them. But historically it's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's. That idea comes from an over-industrialized society which has learned to distrust magic.”

Source : FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Jan 16, 2017

“Without good-will, no man has any presumptive right, except the right or opportunity to change his will, so long as there is hope of it.”

Source : "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Right". Book by William Ernest Hocking. Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 32, p. 73, 1926.

“Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the only theory of morals that does. And evolution throws just as much light on the ethical and social struggle today; and it is the only theory that does. What a strange age ours is from the religious point of view! What a hopeless age from the philosopher's point of view! Yet it is a very good age, the best that ever was. No evolutionist is a pessimist.”

Source : "The Human Origin of Morals". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1926.

“The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.”

“Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.”

“So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all the best!”

“One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.”