"What sweet delight a quiet life affords."

“Love yourself down to the bone, down to the roof of your mouth. Leave no stone unturned, no cell unwanted. Love down to the blood no matter how fast it boils.”

“Lost my ideals in that tunnel of time.”

“Once, a friend’s mom said to me when I was very young 'You can't really invest in your looks as the only thing because it's a depreciating asset. I think this is trueit’s like putting money into a stock that’s going down. Put your money, put your effort, invest in your brain and talent which will appreciate and get better as you get older.”

“In 1990, about 1 percent of American corporate profits were taken in tax havens like the Cayman Islands. By 2002, it was up to 17 percent, and it'll be up to 20-25 percent very quickly. It's a major problem. Fundamentally, we have a tax system designed for a national, industrial, wage economy, which is what we had in the early 1900s. We now live in a global, asset-based, services world. And we need to have a tax system that follows the economic order or it's going to interfere with economic growth, it's going to reduce people's incomes, and it's going to damage the US.”

Source : "Our Indefensible Tax System". Interview With Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. April 11, 2006.

“I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.”

“The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.”

“My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.”

“God's ways are behind the scenes, but He moves all the scenes which He is behind.”

Source : H. H. Snell., G. V. Wilgram, Edward Dennett, H. C. Anstey, C. H. Mackintosh (2015). “The Christian's Friend and Instructor: Christian Magazine Volume 16, 1889 Edition”, p.70, Irving Risch