Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

Charles C. West

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

Chad Hugo

One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.

Proverb

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

Suzanne Finnamore

Any attempt at a rational discussion of the economic realities of government-controlled medical care is almost certain to run up against the trump card of the political left: The Poor. The image that is often invoked is that of the elderly poor, forced to choose between food and medical treatment. Who could be so heartless as to abandon them to the vagaries of the free market?This has proved to be a very effective political strategy for extending government power, not only over medical care but also over housing and other sectors of the economy.The phoniness of this argument becomes apparent the moment you suggest that money be set aside specifically for dealing with the special problems of the poor, rather than bringing whole sectors of the economy under the dominance of politicians, bureaucrats and judges. The amount of money needed to take care of the poor is often some minute fraction of what sweeping new government programs cost. But, while big government liberals are willing to use the poor as human shields in their political battles, their more basic strategy is to proclaim that everyone has a right to some basic need that they want the government to provide. As a matter of practical politics, programs for the poor alone do not have as large a constituency as programs to give everybody some benefit, so that we can all have the illusion of getting something for nothing

Thomas Sowell, Jewish World Revi

The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

Eric Hoffer

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve.

William James

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Robert Frost

O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife.

Matthew Arnold

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Boethius

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

Jodi Picoult