“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”

“I am not interested in seeing new things, I am interested in seeing things new.”

Ernst Haas, photographer

“Sometimes you have to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.”

— Christopher Barzak, writer

“All (writers) have failed to match our dream of perfection… That’s why he keeps on working, trying again; he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won’t, which is why this condition is healthy.”

– William Faulkner, writer

25 Principles of Adult Behavior, No. 6:

“Expect no more of anyone than you yourself can deliver.”

John Perry Barlow, author

“it’s difficult for a man to understand something when his campaign contributions depend on his not understanding it.”

source: How’s That Tax Cut Working Out?

Paul Krugman, journalist, economist

“Tyranny is always better organized than freedom”

Charles Peguy, French, poet, essayist, editor

“There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions”

Reinhold Niebuhr, author, religious figure

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French, author, aviator