“we often envy our own abilities to escape -- aseven in daydreams we find reason for an end." from Human Nature”

“We all wish to protect our loved ones from pain. But part of loving is sharing....Sharing hopes and fears, pain and loss, bodies and minds. Why else love?”

“We find what's in our own heads.”

“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

“We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.”

“We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.”

“You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other. ”