“All polishing is done by friction.”
Mary Parker Follett

“Live your life as an exclamation rather than an explanation.”
Isaac Newton

“The meaning of the flames depends on the story that grows out of the ashes.”
Stephen Pyne

“I don’t want a world in which we all agree. I want a world in which people feel that they have the standing and confidence to feel that they can disagree. I’m interested in why people think as they do.”
Mary Beard

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
Rabindranath Tagore

“Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.”
Aldo Leopold

“If you’re going to be brave, you’re going to know uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. If you think you’re being courageous and you’re comfortable, then you’re probably not being that brave.”
Brené Brown

“Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.”
J. M. Barrie

“America’s healthcare system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.”
Walter Cronkite

“Friends agree that wine improves with age: the older they get, the better they like it.”
Burton Malkiel

“The traditions of today were modernity in the past.”
Jose Andres

“A human being is a spatially and temporally limited piece of the whole, what we call the ‘Universe.’ He experiences himself and his feelings as separate from the rest, an optical illusion of his consciousness. The quest for liberation from this bondage (or illusion) is the only object of true religion. Not nurturing the illusion but only overcoming it gives us the attainable measure of inner peace.”
Albert Einstein

CRM 4/14/25