i remember talking with a friend who has worked for many years at the catholic worker, a ministry to the poor in new york city • daily she tries to respond to waves of human misery that are as ceaseless as surf in that community • out of my deep not-knowing, i asked her how she could keep doing a work that never showed any results, work in which the problem keep getting worse instead of better • i will never forget her enigmatic answer • "the thing you don't understand, parker, is that just because something is impossible doesn't mean you shouldn't do it."

the way i see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

it takes a long time to become young.

the spirit of man is the lamp of God.

laurens van der post

in a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison • I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a "child of darkness" who is equal and complementary to the more obvious "child of light."

terry pratchett

no matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.