Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
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For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.