Spiken

“All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!”
― Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”
― George S. Patton Jr.