The future is there, looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

William Gibson

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

Nagarjuna

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Leonardo da Vinci

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

Security without liberty is called prison.

Benjamin Franklin