Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Hannah Arendt

But what is the difference between literature and journalism ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

Oscar Wilde

What if men take to following where He leads, weary of mumbling Athanasian creeds?

Roden Noel

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man.He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better. It is most reasonable Men should value that Benefit, which is most durable. Now Tongues shall cease, and Prophecy fail, and Faith shall be consummated in Sight, and Hope in Enjoyment; but Love remains.Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love. What we Love, we

William Penn, Fruits of Solitude

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Henry David Thoreau

The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron.

Otto von Bismarck, Speech Declar

If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for "dangerous" climate change.

Jeff Goodell

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Sir Winston Churchill

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

William Hazlitt

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible

George Orwell

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.

Stephen Harper