baroness

"To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

interpretation

"eye-opener"

Harry Truman started his day at 5am with a 1 mile walk, a massage and a shot of bourbon.

pipe

"Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any."

- Mark Twain

ahoy!

"Everything being the same, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050."
- Dame Ellen MacArthur, who holds the earth sailing circumnavigation world record

unk ungani

“I believe our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."
- Mark Twain

Magnum

A glimpse into the intersection of photography and cinema here.

35

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

voracious

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
- Virginia Woolf

father of history

“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”
― Herodotus

Washington on H2O

a reunion

Xunzi

“Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.”
- Xun Kuang

eternal vigilance

“History, like nature, knows no jumps, except the jump backward, maybe.”

- Robert Penn Warren

poet and philosopher

"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant."
- Titus Lucretius Carus

Mr. Mayor

"You'll never know who you are until you encounter who you are not."
- Jermaine Wilson, Mayor of Leavenworth, Kansas, formerly convicted drug dealer.

on addiction

"As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them."
- Robin Williams

cannabis psychosis experience

- Freelance journalist Jennifer Foden explains here.
Jennifer Foden, Freelance journalist

polymath

"Nothing is more beautiful than to know all."
- Athanasius Kircher

sutta

"Were there a mountain all made of gold, doubled that would not be enough to satisfy a single person: know this and live accordingly."
- Buddha [circa 480 BCE]

"be better than yourself"

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

- William Faulkner

a place where stars go

Brando Island

on retirement

"If I rest, I rust."
- 78 year old Placido Domingo

great wall of wisdom

"He who knows all the answers hasn't been asked all the questions."
- Confucius

abolitionist

"To love the religion of Jesus is to hate the religion of slave masters."
- Frederick Douglass

on the unique individual

"There's nobody like anybody ever."
- Oliver Sacks

on humanism

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

—Robert F. Kennedy

secret ingredients

Chez L'Ami Louis uses goose and duck fat & salt on their roast chicken.

The Farm

Ernest Hemingway bought Joan Miró's "The Farm."

father of American literature

"Never let school get in the way of a good education."
- Mark Twain