On my more charitable days, I am grateful even to my enemies, who have sharpened my mind and who have done me the service of being, as a rule, wronger than I am.

‘it is better to govern and misgovern ourselves than to be ruled by someone else. There is no price for liberty'

Ghana’s first president Dr. Kwame Nkrumah

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

--Mother Theresa

"simplify, simplify, simplify."

- thoreau

The darkness darkened.
Oh, the horror, the horror.
It was horrible.

("Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness")

--David M. Bader in Haiku U: From Aristotle to Zola, 100 Great Books in 17 Syllables.

"...it's when things look strange that we see them most clearly."

-Lord Stephen in At the Crossing Places by Kevin Crossley Holland

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

- Albert Einstein