The best of what we are lies in what we hope to be.

Whereas the consolations of religion are mainly personal, the burdens are social and political as well as personal.

It doesn’t have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being – Everything is full of wonder.

The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions. ALEXANDER CHASE.

For we live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; and our time should be counted in the throbs of our hearts as we love and help, learn and strive, and make from our own talents whatever can increase the stock of the world’s good.

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ‘Patriotism’ is its cult. ERICH FROMM.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person’s broad mind and narrow waist change places.

To lie sleepless with pain at night, or to wake every morning and feel the return of grief, yet to get up and carry on as best one can, is courage itself.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope,’ said Voltaire; ’today everything is fine, that is our illusion.

Look at the blogosphere – the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.