From CA:

“The video you posted in your Oct. 21 blog showing attempts to engage college students in meaningful debate was a perfect example of the subject of the book The Coddling of the American Mind. And here’s a quote I found online that sums it up: ‘We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won’t be offended.’”

“I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.” – Jean Kerr (who was my godmother!)

“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.” – Tom Lehrer

“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” – John Milton

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” – Robert Frost

“Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent…. The labor crisis settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the information that results in a strike… normality has become the nemesis of network news.” – Spiro Agnew

Doing anything worth doing is almost always going to be more difficult than you think it will be at the onset. But as Leonard Cohen said, “Why shouldn’t my work be hard? Almost everybody’s work is hard. One is distracted by this notion that there is such a thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I’m not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff, to come up with the payload.”

“There is only one way to determine if a company is socially conscious: Is it profitable?” – Michael Masterson

“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.” – Robert Anton Wilson