"Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?"

“I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances.”

“The United States, after all, was founded by men of liberal sentiment who were seeking to promote the greatest good for the greatest number, by creating a constitutional order for the creation and expansion of liberty.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.”

“Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.”

Source : Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

“Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.”

Source : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.86, Princeton University Press

“Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!”

Source : "Matt Drudge Asks: 'Why Would Anyone Vote Republican?'" by Josh Voorhees, www.businessinsider.com. September 3, 2013.

“Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action”