Susannah

“I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself. ”
― George MacDonald, The Wind from the Stars

“Our envy of others devours us most of all.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Ink is the cosmetic that ideas will wear when they go out in public. Graphite is their dirty truth.”
― Henry Petroski, The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance

“Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights -- the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery -- hay and a barn for human cattle. There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”
― P.J. O'Rourke