Good enough never is

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Jonathan Swift

A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill

[Books] were devices as crassly practical for storing or transmitting language, as the latest Silicon Valley miracles. But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our mind and souls, in a spiritual adventure.

Kurt Vonnegut

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.

Harry Seidler

If anything or anyone removes peace from you or inflicts confusion and judgment on you, this thing or person is not of God regardless of whether or not that person or thing has wrapped itself/himself in the wrapping paper with God's face printed all over it. Don't stop believing in God but stop believing in that person, in that thing. The wrapping paper with God's face stamped all over it isn't really God.

C. JoyBell C.

I love him (Muse) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much... unless you're family.

Jack White

Change your life! Wake up and smell the Cosmic Ordering success.

Stephen Richards

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Charlie Kaufman

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Henry Van Dyke

Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Concentration is my motto -- first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Andrew Carnegie