James RichardsonThinkers

Abuse of power is manifest, first and foremost, in one's not realizing that they have it.

Adversity is the rocks without which the water cannot talk.

Debt demands betrayal when it is of a certain immensity.

Despair says it is all the same.

The End is that which begins when a beginning ends.

Experience is being a little surer of what won't ever happen.

The Future is pure luck. But once it arrives it begins to seem explainable. Not long afterwards, it could hardly have happened otherwise.

Labor is selling one's time to get enough money to buy it back.

The Lock always makes two prisons.

An Obstacle is the rocks without which the water could not talk.