to be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an abillity to trust uncertain things beyond your own control. - Martha Nussbaum

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on, have found that none of theses finally satisfy, or permanently wear, what remains? Nature remains, the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons.. - Walt Whitman

Deciphering is both a science and an art.. in no other science are the rules and princioles so little followed and so often broken: and in no other art is the part played by reasoning and logic so great. - William & Elizabeth Friedmand

To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart, that's what life is all about, that's its task. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky