All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

Gregg Easterbrook

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

Thomas Paine

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

Malcolm Muggeridge

For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them to remain where they are, or to move other-wise than in a straight line, These rectilinear motions of these four elements when returning to their original place are are of two kinds, either centrifugal,vziz.

Maimonides

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

Kevin Kelly

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

James Hillman

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sidney Altman

Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

Self-worth comes from one thing -- thinking that you are worthy.

Wayne Dyer

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Oprah Winfrey