After a week of crisscrossing Florida over city highways and country roads (something I hadn’t done much during the pandemic), I ran across this old favorite. If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it. Cormack McCarthy, The Road
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.” Thomas Paine was an England-born political philosopher and writer who supported revolutionary causes in America and Europe. Published in 1776 to international acclaim, “Common Sense” was the first pamphlet to advocate American independence.
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and places. Frederick Douglass
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Maya Angelou
I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them […]
When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — “No, you move.” Captain America, “Amazing Spider-Man #537”
Underbreath Vocalized under one’s breath. For example, “It is not always safe to underbreath your feelings in open court.”
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon
The best way out is always through. Robert Frost
