Paul

“Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.” Charles Péguy

“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from." Joan Didion

“Fanaticism is the death of conversation.” E.M. Cioran

“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." Romans 12:2

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.” Chinese proverb

"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”

—Charles Bukowski

“When someone tells me 'no' it doesn't mean I can't do it. It just means I can't do it with them." Karen E. Quinones Miller (and sometimes attributed to Steve Jobs)

“Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated." Larry McMurtry

“Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.” Ursula K. Le Guin