“I cannot live without books.” ― Thomas Jefferson     “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” ― Thomas Jefferson     “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” ― Thomas Jefferson     “Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.” ― Thomas Jefferson     “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god.…

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them” ― Thomas Merton   “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ― Thomas Merton     “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.” ―…

“I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” ― Thomas Sowell   “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” ― Thomas Sowell   “It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. ” ― Thomas Sowell   “People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”…