thought-provoking

Facts you can bend. Memories are much stronger things.

Never discount good intentions, for good intentions may be all one has to offer. - Eilish in "No-Till" by Basil Pearl.

I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Sometimes we choose the road we follow.And sometimes the road chooses us.

An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind.

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling.

To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart?

It is easy, and therefore uninspiring, to love within the norms of acceptance and society. Other than ones own heart, there is no great risk involved; it's all very status quo. The same is tired, but what's outside-the-norm is captivating and gets under people__ skin, pushing their buttons, making them think and revealing their depth as a person, or their lack thereof. It's love against obstacles that inspires the most _ a love that faces and ultimately endures through challenges, hardship and ridicule that is courageous and triumphant.

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

When we start rating each other__ lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on social media.

To travel is to discover that human beings everywhere are human beings.

In our weeks of talk, movies and friendship, I watched as Wilma turned a medical ordeal into one more event in her life, but not its definition. I believe she was teaching me an intimate form of The Way. In her words: "Every day is a good day - because we are part of everything alive.

Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.

Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. In these days of specialization there are too few people who have such a deep understanding of two departments of our knowledge that they do not make fools of themselves in one or the other.

It is the transience of life which proves its inestimable worth.