I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.
Learning is by nature, curiosity.
Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria
Learning is by nature curiosity. . . prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.
The body is the soul's house. Shouldn't we therefore take care of our house so that it doesn't fall into ruin?
It would be a sign of great simplicity to think that the world was created in six days, or indeed at all in time; [. . . ] Time is a thing posterior to the world. Therefore it would be correctly said that the world was not created in time, but that time had its existence in consequence of the world. For it is the motion of the heaven that has displayed the nature of time.
I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.
Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up.
I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me.
If I was a cabinetmaker or a commercial fisherman, it would be the same question - how to connect to my world. The job we do affords us the opportunity to have people listen to what we say. But a lot of people have a similar situation: They're trying to find a way to do some good.