Rhonda Schipper

“Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings”
― Arthur Rubinstein

“A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.”
― Herman Melville

“and Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.”
― Herman Melville

“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, the Whale