Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us read more

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build read more

When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.

I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.

I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard read more

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul read more

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not read more

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love. read more

Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love. -Unknown.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

I quote others in order to better express myself.

I quote others in order to better express myself.