Paul

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

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

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

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

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

“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)

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

—Charles Bukowski

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

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