*Each time I see a mountain I expect it to transform into a volcano.* — Italo Svevo *I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.* — Winston Churchill *The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.* — Frank Zappa *If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.* — Lester B. Pearson *I’ve always been more interested in the future than in the past.* — Grace Hopper *It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.* — Susan Sontag *A man can adapt to nearly anything, but only two or three times.* — Aaron Haspel *How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?* — Epictetus *Evangelists are now - and have long become - a political bloc with a religious past.* — Elizabeth Bruenig (7th Nov. NY Times) *Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.* — Hermann Hesse *True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It’s about bringing order to complexity'.* —Jony Ive (Apple designer) *How you spend your money is much more impactful to your happiness than how much money you actually have.* — Tiffany Sun *Those who never leave their country of birth seldom develop an appreciation for other cultures — or a respect for other opinions.* — Albert Einstein *A political system that cannot enforce consequences on a government is broken.* — James Butler (The London Review of Books, 28 May 2021)