"I found that they knew but little..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.”

“You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.”

“We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.”

“I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.”

“A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.”

“Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.”

“Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.”

“I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.”

“We are all ignorant; just about different things.”