Brian

“Let not your soul in Sorrow's clasp be prest,
Nor let your days be filled with vain unrest;
The book, the loved one's lips and marge of mead
Forsake not ere Earth fold you in her breast.”
― Omar Khayyám, Quatrains

“I have watched education become more a privilege of the rich than the basic necessity that it must be if civilized society is to survive. I have watched as convenience, profit, and inertia excused greater and more dangerous environmental degradation. I have watched poverty, hunger, and disease become inevitable for more and more people.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“People do blame you for the things they do to you.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents