Ryan Whelan

“For all of us, the person we love most in the world, the one who can send us soaring joyfully into space, is also the person who can send us crashing back to earth. All it takes is a slight turning away of the head or a flip, careless remark. There is no closeness without this sensitivity. If our connection with our mate is safe and strong, we can deal with these moments of sensitivity. Indeed, we can use them to bring our partner even closer. But when we don’t feel safe and connected, these moments are like a spark in a tinder forest. They set fire to the whole relationship.”
― Sue Johnson, Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships

“He serves his party best who serves his country best.”
― Rutherford B. Hayes

“Though you speak to yourself in secret, your words are examined in heaven.”
― Basil the Great, On Social Justice

“He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz