Wit & Wisdom

“Parents are not interested in justice. They’re interested in peace and quiet.”

Bill Cosby, quoted in the Charlotte, N.C., Observer

“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.”

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Novelist Marilynne Robinson, quoted in The Wall Street Journal

“The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.”

Ogden Nash, quoted in the Northwest Indiana Post-Tribune

“The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.”

Author Reynolds Price, quoted in the Anchorage Daily News

“To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is a reason.”

Artist Ai Weiwei, quoted in PBS.org

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

Robert Louis Stevenson, quoted in HuffingtonPost.com

“If you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”

Carl Jung, quoted in the National Catholic Reporter