“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” ― Lyndon B. Johnson   “Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.” ― Lyndon Baines Johnson     “Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!” ― Lyndon Baines Johnson     “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” ― Lyndon B. Johnson     “The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures…

“Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: Yourself.” ― Alan Alda     “[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.” ― Alan Alda   “At times you have to leave the city of your comfort…

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley     “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” ― Aldous Huxley     “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ― Aldous Huxley   “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” ― Aldous Huxley     “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.” ― Aldous Huxley   “Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with…