As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

-John Lancaster Spalding

The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. So to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that which is impenetretrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

-Albert Einstein

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

-Mary Pickford

What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

-Eldridge Cleaver

A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.

-Mark Ardis

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

-Frank Herbert Dune