Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. - Thornton Wilder

Spiders draw just enough silk out of their bowels to catch those half-dozen flies they need to feed themselves and their loved ones; but the rich make silk and silk and silk. Nothing can stop them. Their houses are stuffed with it. Their banks are stuffed with it, and it’s not out of their bowels they make it, but out of the bowels and lungs and eyeballs of others.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good