Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Hunger allows no choice, To the citizens or the police; We must love one another or die

'In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away,And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentiona

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession