Ideas

"The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized ...

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."           - Henry David Thoreau ...

“Each of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm. When we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must ...

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."                                           - Arnold Schwarzenegger ...

"Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful ...

"The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart." - William Hazlitt ...

"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely I as if they had never happened before." - Willa Cather ...

"Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes, lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream ...

"For, as wolves and tigers gorge themselves with flesh and lick their gory chops, so do nations gorge themselves with human victims, not in detail, but in masses, by wholesale." - Henry C. Wright ...

"I was born inside the movie of my life.  I don’t remember how I got into the movie, but it continues to entertain me." - Roger Ebert ...