Margaret

“But I pray that civil strife with its endless greed for evil never takes a loud stand in this city. 980 May the dust never guzzle the citizens’ black blood. May lust for revenge never seize in its arms disaster for the city of murdering back and forth. May the people trade joy for joy in concord, in communion, and hate with one spirit— which is good against all sorts of human ailments.”
― Mary R. Lefkowitz, The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

“A creative man has no choice. He may come across his supreme task almost accidentally. But once the issue is joined, his task proves to be at the same time intimately related to his most personal conflicts, to his superior selective perception, and to the stubbornness of his one-way will; he must court sickness, failure, or insanity in order to test the alternative whether the established world will crush him, or whether he will disestablish a sector of this world's outworn fundaments and make place for a new one.”
― Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society

“Far, indeed, in my wishes, very far distant be the day, when our associated and fraternal stripes shall be severed asunder, and when that happy constellation under which we have risen to so much renown, shall be broken up, and be seen sinking, star after star, into obscurity and night!”
― Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House