An Excellent Plumber Is Infinitely More Admirable

Some People Seem To Believe That For Each Problem There Is A Solution Readily Available - A Solution That Can Be Promptly Achieved By Passing A Law And Voting Some Money. I Think Of This As The Vending Machine Concept Of Social Change. Put A Coin In The Machine And Out Comes A Piece Of Candy. If There Is A Social Problem, Pass A Law And Out Comes A Solution.

Storybook Happiness Involves Every Form Of Pleasant Thumb-twiddling; True Happiness Involves The Full Use Of One's Powers And Talents.

History Never Looks Like History When You Are Living Through It. It Always Looks Confusing And Messy, And It Always Feels Uncomfortable.

In The Artist's Recreation Of The World We Are Enabled To See The World.

Mastery Is Not Something That Strikes In An Instant, Like A Thunderbolt, But A Gathering Power That Moves Steadily Through Time, Like Weather.