Freedom

Freedom in the mere sense of independence is meaningless. Perfect freedom lies in the harmony of relationship which we realize not through knowing but in being.

~Rabindranath Tagore

When you have two engines

When you have two engines, you have two engines that can fall to bits. When you have four engines, you have four that can fall to bits. The less engines you have, the safer you are.

~Frank Fickeisen, chief engineer for Boeing

That is true

That is true - but not absolutely true.

~Jean Drapeau

Money

Money is not everything,
but it does make poverty tolerable.

~Moss Evans

Just halfway through

Just halfway through life's journey
I reawoke to find myself in a dark wood
Far off course, the right way lost.
How hard it is to tell what this
Wild, harsh, forbidding wood was like
Whose merest memory brings back my fear;
For only death exceeds its bitterness.
But I found goodness there; I'll deal with that
As I describe the various things I saw.

~Opening lines from Dante's Inferno

When you hear

When you hear the thunder, lightning has already struck somewhere else.

~Sandra Hymel

Man would sooner

Man would sooner have the void for his purpose than be void of purpose.

~Nietzche

Genius is

Genius is an immense capacity for making trouble.

~Carlyle

The moment

The moment anyone bows to an authority outside himself, he blindfolds his inner eye and ceases to create. He becomes a mere assembler.

~Gardner Hunting