“We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.”

“What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.”

“Every action has a reaction,everything we do or say has an effect.”

“Each one of us is the center of our own universe. That's the only way it can be. From our point of view, we are stationary and everything else is swirling around us, dropping into our lives just for our reaction.”

“...it does not matter if we are forgotten; what matters is the effect we have on those around us and those who come after us. What matters is how our own lives affect the larger, perpetual community of the living.”

“Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in us. Everything that has been, if we saw it when it was, was taken from us when it went away.”