Dangerous Thoughts

“There is no man, good as he may be, who, if all his thoughts and actions were submitted to the scrutiny of the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.” – Montaigne

Casual Co-conspirators

“A person may be terribly distraught about her marriage, yet when people ask how she is she will quickly answer, ‘Fine, how are you?’ The person asking doesn’t really want t know and the person answering doesn’t really want to tell. They are co-conspirators in a...

To Be or Not To Be

“To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them. To die—to sleep, no more; and by a sleep to say we end the...

Indifference

“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.” – George Bernard Shaw

Mistakes

“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.” – Edward John Phelps