Better Quotes

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. (“The Lorax”)

We are here to make a better world. No amount of rationalization or blaming can preempt the moment of choice each of us brings to our situation here on this planet. The lesson of the ’60s is that people who cared enough to do right could change history. We didn’t end racism but we ended […]

As you get better at a thing, it gets less interesting.

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.

The barbarians are not at the gates. They are inside the gates – and have academic tenure, judicial appointments, government grants, and control of the movies, television, and other media. Virtually everything that was supposed to make things better made things worse. What has failed is accepted without question by so-called ‘thinking people’ and what […]

As we grow better, we meet better people.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

Better to have them inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.

The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.

I have now spent fifty-five years in resolving: having, from the earliest time almost that I can remember, been forming plans of a better life. I have done nothing. The need of doing, therefore, is pressing, since the time of doing is short. O God, grant me to resolve aright, and to keep my resolutions, […]