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• Quote #159 The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, "What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?
  and my answer must at once be, "It is no use." There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever....
• The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes.
  We shall see them doing so upon our television sets. -- C.P. Snow...
• We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
  That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do....
• A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
  What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?...
• We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
  Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually....
• Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten.
  Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain but there in the sandbox at nursery school....
• We all come from the Goddess-and to Her we shall return.
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time.
  But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own....