The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.

Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

Pantanjali

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Vincent Van Gogh

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact.

Christopher Hitchens

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

Publilius Syrus

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.

Indian Proverb

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Felix Adler

Life is a journey, not a destination - we determine our destiny by the direction we take.

Anon.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

Deepak Chopra

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

Sir Winston Churchill