We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose

I can't look at everything hard enough!

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great works at some moment every day

The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive mind. Law is invented, then morality, then love, then forgiveness. Thousands and thousands of ideas, knit together over time, each one less practical and more ornamental than the last, all stretched taut above the wandering, wondering heads like a little pavilion; a temporary shelter for the human project.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.