“Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses     “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses     “I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my…

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.-Ruth Bader Ginsburg     Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.-Stephen Covey   The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.-Caroline Kennedy     Independence is happiness.-Susan B. Anthony     I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for…

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.-George Orwell     You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.-Robin Williams   There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.-Gilbert K. Chesterton     Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.-Simone Weil   I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.-Michelangelo   The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau       The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.-Alfred…