I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.

Angelus Silesius

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.

Sarah Sutton

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Mal Pancoast

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

Lewis Thomas

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

Edwin P. Whipple

Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

Bear Grylls

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Simone Signoret

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Call no faith false which e'er hath brought Relief to any laden life, Cessation to the pain of thought, Refreshment mid the dust of strife.

Lewis Morris (poet)

Without friends you have nothing!

Stephen Richards

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Sigmund Freud