Today

“A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.”

- Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“Now he turned the radio on to the news. As we did our separate chores, we listened and commented idly to each other on what we heard—the politics, the plane crashes and crimes, the large disasters of the day, which we all use to keep the smaller, more long-term sorrows at bay.”

- Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

“Life ... is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.”

- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”

- Søren Kierkegaard

"You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.”

- Jon Stewart

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”

- Henry Ford

"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”

- M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

- René Descartes

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

“To be in your children's memories tomorrow, You have to be in their lives today.”

- Barbara Johnson