I am I and my circumstance, and if I don't save it I don't save myself. Meditations on Quixote

The teacher reminded us that Rome's liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly, gradually, furtively, little by little; first with a little corn and oil for the exceedingly poor and wretched, later with corn and oil for voters who were not quite so poor, later still with corn and oil for pretty much every man that had a vote to sell--exactly our own history over again. Purchasing Civic Virtue

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Never Give In!

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price. By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept