When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

Our true ancestry is the emergent creativity of the universe. Our forebears were the great inventors who 'learned' how to coalesce hydrogen and helium into stars, to form planets, to sustain life first from mineral nutrients in the sea and later to capture delicious photons, to exploit oxygen for energy rather than be exterminated by it, to diversify via sexual reproduction, to form social groups for greater security and protection of offspring. We are the beneficiaries (and, admittedly, also the victims) of this narrative of emergence. Our 'companions'

John Brewer, The Great Story

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

Terry Pratchett

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Zora Neale Hurston

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

Marshall McLuhan

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

Pam Brown

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle, something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

Aung San Suu Kyi

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

Henry David Thoreau