Today

"Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference."

- Jim Butcher, Vignette (The Dresden Files, #5.5)

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."

- Mahatma Gandhi

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

- George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.”

- Ayn Rand

“I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.”

- John Steinbeck

"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

- Carlos Castaneda

"There is only one person you're guaranteed to spend the rest of your life with - - yourself. Don’t live the rest of your life with an asshole."

- Bill Murray

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”

- Fred Rogers

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”

- Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."

- John F. Kennedy