“He who allows oppression shares the crime.”

Desiderius Erasmus, teacher, critic

“No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the paradox that one can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one’s partiality.”

Wendell Berry, writer, quote from “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.118, Counterpoint

“Politics have no relation to morals.”

“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”

“I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.”

Q:

“What is your definition of happiness?”

A:

“A clear horizon, Nothing to worry about on your plate – only things that are creative and not destructive. Within me I can’t be quarreling. I think hatred is wasted energy and it’s all non-productive. Call these negative emotions – but when all of these are removed, and you can look forward and the road is clear ahead and now you are going to create something — I think that is as happy as I’d ever want to be.”

Alfred Hitchcock on “happiness”

” friendship …the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.”

“The shadows are as important as the light.”

“No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land”

Annie Dillard, writer

“You can’t know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction”

Wendell Berry, writer, poet