Speed of Life

Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

I would rather be ashes than dust,
I would rather my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze,
Than it should be stifled in dry rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor,
With every atom of me in magnificent glow,
Than a sleepy and permanent planet.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.

Don’t mistake me, I clearly see that Ryan has a whole lotta ‘rage’ in him: A rage against women, a rage against immigrants, a rage against workers, a rage against gays, a rage against the poor, a rage against the environment. Basically the only thing he’s not raging against is the privileged elite he’s groveling in front of for campaign contributions.

Cogito, ergo sum.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.