Quote of the Day -- Rachel Ingalls

Sweep everything under the rug for long enough, and you have to move right out of the house. 

-- Rachel Ingalls

Quote of the Day -- Goethe

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quote of the Day -- John Edward Williams

The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey through strange seas and unknown islands, where he will test and prove his powers, and thereby discover his immortality. The man of middle years, who has lived the future that he once dreamed, sees life as a tragedy; for he has learned that his power, however great, will not prevail against those forces of accident and nature to which he gives the names of gods, and has learned that he is mortal. But the man of age, if he plays his assigned role properly, must see life as a comedy. For his triumphs and his failures merge, and one is no more the occasion for pride or shame than the other; and he is neither the hero who proves himself against those forces, nor the protagonist who is destroyed by them. Like any poor, pitiable shell of an actor, he comes to see that he has played so many parts that there no longer is himself.

-- John Edward Williams

Quote of the Day -- Rachel Cusk

It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves. 

-- Rachel Cusk

Quote of the Day - C.S. Lewis

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

-- C.S. Lewis

Quote of the Day -- Sandra Day O'Connor

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

-- Sandra Day O'Connor

Quote of the Day --- Charles de Gaulle

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

-- Charles de Gaulle

Quote of the Day -- Wendell Berry

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

-- Wendell Berry