To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Walter Bagehot

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Horace Mann

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

William Gibson

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Sydney J. Harris

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

Mikhail Bakunin