think of nothing things think of wind
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.
The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.
You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.
Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned. . . it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
You can feel that something terrible is going on in another place in the world, and it's the other, it's not you. It's always there, it's them. But this them is also you.
There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications horizontally. . . We need to think of the enterprise not as an island of stand-alone technology.
Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.
As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author speak—a whispering that enables us into its world. . . a masterfully sutured journey, painfully useful. Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines is a book I know I will return to. And urge it on my friends who have lives too and write in them.