Craig Pickens

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. —Frederick Douglass”
― Timber Hawkeye, Buddhist Boot Camp

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
― Ernest Benn

“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
― Winston S. Churchill