Nothing is so essential as dignity. Time will reveal who has it and wi has it not." -Beatrix Whittaker

Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head?

That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.

I am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving.

At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.

At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.

It may seem a simple pleasure to spoil our children with a treat of sugar, but that pleasure becomes a sin when the sugar was grown by human beings held in unspeakable misery.

Gentleness stepped out of your smile

Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.

When youre the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time.

Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.

Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.

Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated

Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?