Quote for Today: Henri Nouwen
Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer …
Quote for Today: Ava DuVernay
I talk a lot about my challenge with permission and the culture of permission in which we live. Women, people of color, and anyone outside of the dominant gaze …
Quote for Today: Carl Sagan
If we can’t think for ourselves, if we’re unwilling to question authority, then we’re just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated …
Quote for Today: Christopher Isherwood
An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave …
Quote for Today: Charles Finch
If there’s a single idea I emphasize when people ask about writing, it’s that there’s no right way to produce a book. But I do think that whatever you do, …
Quote for Today: J. Robert Oppenheimer
You put a hard question on the virtue of discipline. What you say is true: I do value it—and I think that you do too—more than for its earthly …
Quote for Today: Tahar Ben Jelloun
Outside, not only over our pit but above all far away from it, there was life. You could not think too much about it, but I liked to imagine …
Quote for Today: Joyce Tenneson
My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work has become more direct, perhaps …
Quote for Today: Isaac Leib Peretz
I am a rainworm, buried deep Among the oozing, slimy things, Yet of an eagle’s nest I dream, And eagle’s wings. —Isaac Leib Peretz, “I am a rainworm”, translated by J. Robbins …
Quote for Today: Wendell Berry
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and …