Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), from The Divine, 1783

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Bernadette Devlin

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it....

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03

Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be. Jose Vasconcelos

It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure. Corrine Dewlow

The ingenuity of the device blinds us to its utter uselessness. Anonymous British civil servant, “Take Her Deep” by I.J. Galatin, Cdr., US Navy, ret.

Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death. David Adger, Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach