"To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better."

“I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.”

“My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal”

“He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.”

“To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.”

Source : Gerald G. May (2009). “Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions”, p.16, Harper Collins

“If a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of a society of free men, it must also be noted that an atmosphere of freedom is required if these problems are to be met constructively and as they arise.”

Source : Marshall Field (1945). “Freedom is More Than a Word”

“Whether railroads or electricity or the Internet, there is always some sense that this is the new, redemptive platform - that finally, finally, we've found the platform that will allow us all to lead a democratic, global existence, where all problems will be solved. And the idea that the old platform becomes obsolete, "this kills that," and so on, also often accompanies the advent of a new technology. The digital platform is no exception.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.”

“Find that place which is effortlessly at rest within itself. Be there-be one with that.”