Wit & Wisdom
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have
something to lose.” Steve Jobs, quoted in CNN.com
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” Ursula K. Le Guin, quoted in
GoodReads.com
“There is no more volatile compound known to man than that of decorum and despair.” Critic Anthony Lane, quoted in
PasteMagazine.com
“Nothing is more unbearable, once one has
it, than freedom.” James Baldwin, quoted in
BrainPickings.org
“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”
Journalist and editor Hazel Rochman, quoted in
Country Living
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in
the proportion.” Philosopher Francis Bacon,
quoted in the
San Francisco Examiner “You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t
make him think.” Comedian Milton Berle, quoted in the Lock Haven, Pa., Express