Quote of the Day

“The fact is that in the day to day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have a life or death importance.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College

Quote of the Day

“No man is really a man who has lost out of himself all of the boy.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower, Homecoming Speech, Abilene, Kansas (1945-06-22)

Quote of the Day

“Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing.” — Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition

Quote of the Day

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” — C. S. Lewis, “On Three Ways of Writing for Children”