"The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in."

“According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world . They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.”

Source : "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 314), 1943.

“let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.”

“I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be”

“If you want to get along, go along.”

Source : Quoted in Neil MacNeil, Forge of Democracy, the House of Representatives (1963). This was Speaker of the House of Representatives Rayburn's advice to new members of Congress.

“My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.”

“I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.”

“Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from the world and becoming free of it.”

Source : Rudolf Karl Bultmann (1985). “New Testament and Mythology: And Other Basic Writings”

“We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.”