Jim Helms

“the opposite extremes of bigotry and indifference’12 were united.”
― Grantlee Kieza, Banks: A riveting account of one of the world's most famous explorers

“Your ability to control your thoughts—treat it with respect. It’s all that protects your mind from false perceptions—false to your nature, and that of all rational beings. It’s what makes thoughtfulness possible, and affection for other people, and submission to the divine.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“feel as the good God feels when He looks out on His fleets of constellations ploughing the awful deeps of space and reflects with satisfaction that they are His—all His.”
― Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

“that shows you the power of music, that magician of magicians ; who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.”
― Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc