A Fine Selection of Daily Quotes

"Evil requires the sanction of the victim."

"Ultimately it don't matter what they write in your obituary, 'cause you ain't gonna be around to read it. Newsprint fades; paper turns to pulp. The mark you leave behind has to be deeper. The mark you leave behind has to be on another person's soul."

"The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain."

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

"I've got all the love and beauty in the spirit of the night, and I'm holding my ticket tight. Stupidity and suffering are on that ticket too, but I'm going down the dip with you."

"Chess is particularly the game of the unappreciated, who seek in play that success which life has denied them."

"In the long run, we're all dead."

"And you, sir, are a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing."

"The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation."

"You don't know the basic assumptions of your culture if your culture is the only culture you know."

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page."

"The longer you live, the more you look around, the more you realize something is fucked up. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. Results like these do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being. This is the kinda shit you'd expect from an office temp with a bad attitude."

"If you're a person who loves Alice Munro and you're going out with someone whose favorite book is 'The Da Vinci Code,' perhaps the flags of incompatibility were there prior to the big reveal."

"The reasonable act and the generous act lie close together. A person of narrow sympathy is of necessity a person of confined outlook upon the scene of human good. The only truly general thought is the generous thought."

"Public education in the United States has been placed in the unenviable position of serving the dichotomous and often mutually exclusive roles of preserving traditional values while promulgating desirable social evolution."

"No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any."

"Poverty consists, not in the decrease of one's possessions, but in the increase of one's greed."

"The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statisticians, psychologists, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned to it. The theologians call it a sinner and tries to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. The psychotherapist calls it neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots."

"While the author's wildly swerving train of thought did at one point flirt with coherence, this brief encounter was more likely a chance event than a result of even rudimentary lucidity."

"There is no truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world."