One withered flower cannot waste the entire spring, and one setback cannot waste the entire life.
I figure life is gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You never know what hand you're going to get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you.
Reading is not for eloquence and refutation; nor is it for credulity and blind obedience, but for thinking and weighing.
The scary thing about "entertaining oneself to death" is not the entertainment itself, but the fact that people are gradually losing their ability to think seriously and make rational judgments about social affairs, and that they have been cultivated by a frivolous cultural environment into rational illiterates who are both ignorant and fearless. Know. --Neal Postman
