Quote of the Day -- David Brooks

The great achievement of the meritocracy is that it has widened opportunities to those who were formerly oppressed. But diversity is a midpoint, not an endpoint. Just as a mind has to be opened so that it can close on something, an organization has to be diverse so that different perspectives can serve some end. Diversity for its own sake, without a common telos, is infinitely centrifugal, and leads to social fragmentation.

-- David Brooks, NY Times, 28 May 2018

Quote of the Day -- Henry Van Dyke

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

-- Henry Van Dyke

Quote of the Day -- Epicurus

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

-- Epicurus

Quote of the Day -- Robert F Kennedy

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

-- Robert F Kennedy

Quote of the Day -- William Faulkner

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

-- William Faulkner

Quote of the Day -- Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Quote of the Day -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man’s life is a progress, not a station. 

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the Day -- Anthony Bourdain

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

-- Anthony Bourdain

Quote of the Day -- Publius Syrus

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

-- Publius Syrus

Quote of the Day -- Dolly Parton

Yes, I’ve always been a dreamer, and yes, I have always tried. And dreams are special things. But dreams are of no value if they’re not equipped with wings and feet and hands and all that. If you’re going to make a dream come true, you’ve got to work with it. You can’t just sit around. That’s a wish. That’s not a dream. 

-- Dolly Parton