God will know his own
Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. "Slay them all. God will know his own." ~ attributed to Abbot Arnold Amaury before the massacre of Béziers during the Albigensian…
Coffee – Long Black
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. ~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
lives of quiet desperation
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. - Henry David Thoreau
Little minds
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; Great minds in the commonplace. - Elbert Hubbard
Growing slowly
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be only afraid of standing still. - chinese proverb
Paths to the top
There are many paths to the top of the mountain - but the view is always the same. - chinese proverb
moments lost in time
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All these moments…
Old Age
"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man." - Leon Trotsky
Waiting properly
'You must learn to wait properly' 'And how does one learn that?' 'By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind you so decisively that nothing more is…
Those who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat their mistakes.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana (1863 – 1952)