Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

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Never Explain Anything

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The most important things are the hardest to say

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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. — Walt Disney

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Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.― Roy T. Bennett

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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

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Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents — the talks, the games, the family festivities and arguments.

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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. — Harper Lee

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There is only one certainty in life and that is that nothing is certain. — G.K. Chesterton

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