Thought of the Day from Albert Einstein

I do not pretend to have consistent, easily categorized political views.  That’s why I call myself a “flaming moderate.”  But one attitude I hold pretty consistently is suspicion of concentrated power—in government, in industry, and especially in government and industry!  That’s why I felt a kindred spirit in Teddy Roosevelt, as quoted in Morris’s amazing…

I read for lots of reasons, of course. For entertainment. For information. For intellectual stimulation. To fill up a rainy day, since I can’t play piano for eight hours at a time. But another reason to read is to make me a better writer. In a wonderful essay in the Atlantic monthly, Richard Bausch makes…

Speaking of time of day, here is George C. Marshall opining on originality: “No one ever had an original idea after 3 o’clock in the afternoon.” A totally false statement, of course. But I don’t think that was his point!

“When an illness is viewed as inexplicable and impenetrable, people tend to react to it with one of two extremes: either they stigmatize it or they romanticize it. It’s hard to know which is worse.” – Michael Foster Green, Professor, UCLA Department of Psychiatry (Click here to view comments)