Quotes

Every poem can be considered in two ways–as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. C. S. Lewis, A preface to “Paradise Lost”

I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self,...

As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the...

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around...

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov, Salvor Hardin in “Foundation”

We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours. Golda Meir, to Anwar Saddat just before the peace talks.

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as...