Gerry Sikorski

Are people more violently opposed to fur rather than leather because its much easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs?

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Things that seemed simple and superfluous had some meaning, maybe it wasn’t a great meaning, it didn’t shake the world…

I’m slipping. I’m made of departed dreams and a stubborn fog that feels nothing like a veil.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

We lift ourselves by our thoughts. We climb upon our vision of ourselves.