Justin Lancy

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. —RAINER MARIA RILKE

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality and the desire for achievement and success.

but if you’re too loyal to your own suffering, you forget that others suffer, too.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression. St. Vincent de Paul cautioned his disciples to deport themselves so that the poor “will forgive you the bread you give them.”

An African proverb says, ‘the child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth’.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. —SCOTT ADAMS

“Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all—oneself,” architect Louis Kahn stated. “Nobody knows his own frontiers.

The higher I climb in my life, the more I realize how much I need to mop that floor. Because that’s where all the knowledge is. There is no grit at the top, no tests of resolve in steak dinners, five-star hotels, or spa treatments.