Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.

If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Chinese Proverb

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

Philip Kaufman

God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.

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Back, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.

Ambrose Bierce

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois.(I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

Albert Camus

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change --only to give stability to one beautiful moment.

George Eliot

Make sure you want it enough.

Frank Kingdon

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.

Betty Bender

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Earl Nightingale

The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.

Robert Charles Wilson