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: John Steinbeck
“This here ol’ man jus’ lived a life an’ just died out of it. I don’ know whether he was good or bad, but that don’t matter much. He was …
Quote for Today: Wendell Berry
Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin. It uses neither tool nor material that it does not respect and …
Quote for Today: Mary Daly
Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a maze/haze of deception. The journey of women …
40 days of Poetry: Day 30: Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski
Day 30: My dear friend Maureen McCarthy suggested this beautiful poem, Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski. It’s about remembering the good things, which are often small …
Quote for Today: Walt Whitman
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun…. there are millions …
Quote for Today: A. A. Milne
“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a …
Quote for Today: Mike Kelley
Revelations help us accept the things we need the most, expose the secrets we so desperately try to hide and illuminate the dangers all around us. But more than anything, …
Quote for Today: Harold Kushner
In the final analysis, the question of why bad things happen to good people translates itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how …
Quote for Today: David McCullough
Reading history is good for all of us. If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped …