Chris Fogle via DFW via William Deresiewicz:

What is heroic about true heroism is that it has no reward.

Rebecca Solnit:

Victory sometimes seems so quotidian that you have to look twice to notice it.

Hunter S. Thompson:

The bulk of the press in this country has such a vested interest in the status quo that it can't afford to do much honest probing at the roots, for fear of what they might find.

Jonah Lehrer:

Nothing keeps us motivated like not knowing better.

Jacob Weisberg:

The conservative position that all spending is evil obliterates any distinction between investment and consumption, between the long-term and the short-term. The United States suffers with an increasingly third-world level of infrastructure, a third-tier education system, and enormous gaps in the preparedness of its workforce. The debate has now ended: Money to upgrade those faltering systems will not be forthcoming.

Rebecca Solnit:

Unpredictability is grounds for hope, though please don't mistake hope for optimism.

Everything changes. Sometimes you have to change it yourself.

Jim Gettys:

More is not necessarily better. More is often worse.