This is one of my favorite quotations of all time: “Years ago I preferred clever people.  There was a joy in beholding a mind bearing thoughts quickly translated into words, or ideas expressed in a new way.  I find now that my taste has changed.  Verbal fireworks often bore me.  They seem motivated by self-assertion […]

“You, yourself, have got to see that there is no just interpretation of life except in terms of life’s best things. No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the […]