A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much. Jawaherlal Nehru

To each mortal peradventure earth becomes a new machine. Browning

The kingdoms of fantasy and mirth are longlasting and not of this world. V. S. Pritchett

The actual God of many Americans… is simply the current of American life. C. H. Cooley

All created things are impermanent. Strive on with diligence. Buddha, Last words before his death

Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love...

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)

It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them. H. G. Wells, Preface of “The Complete Science-Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells”