“Freedom is not an ideal”

Nature is neutral.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.

It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.

A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

The boldness to face them, face them square.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Be solved if we have the will, the courage

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.

What cannot be said will be wept.

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.

To compete at the Olympic Games

This reality no “one” survives. In Ultimate Reality no “one” is saved either – there is simply nothing to save you “from”

Including the very process of knowledge that we call science .

Great lands stretching endlessly…