Paul

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

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

“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)

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

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

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

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

“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." John Wooden

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

—Charles Bukowski