Jim Helms

“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

“In the private letters of Albert Sloane, by permission of the Sloane family.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

“Yet in the midst of all their prosperity, princes in this respect seem to me most unfortunate, because, having no one to tell them truth, they are forced to receive flatterers for friends.”
― Erasmus, Praise of Folly

“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