"There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds."

“The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.”

“To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .”

“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.”

“If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing} you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit your trout on the head with rocks, and eat them raw. But, so as not to violate another essential element of the fly-fishing tradition, the rocks would have to be quarried in England and cost $300 each.”

“Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.”

“Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!”

“Reason is simply a vast tautology.”

Source : J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.25, Princeton University Press

“Volleyball rules are simple. If it is on the floor, pick it up and get it into the air. If it is in the air, keep it off the floor. —”