Today

"He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”

- George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant

"This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.”

- John Bradshaw, Bradshaw on the Family

“Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.”

- P.D. James, The Children of Men

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”

- Ray Bradbury

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”

- Albert Einstein

"When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."

- Pablo Picasso

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.”

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming- That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”

- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan