Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.  

 ––Frank Herbert

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.                           ––John Muir

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

––George Orwell

What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion.              ––Henry Miller

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air, and water. Men can employ it as a tool, or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or in translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.              ––Lewis H. Lapham

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

––Woody Allen

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

 ––Eric Sevareid

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him or to him.                  ––Thomas Edison

In autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they said to me, “When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?”                

––Kahlil Gibran