The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.