"Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read."

“I'd support life extension by whatever means, from cryonic suspension to cyborgism to coding ourselves into our computers or whatever. There is nothing noble or beautiful or dignified about dying. Like poverty, it is ugly, nasty, brutal and primitive.”

“A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.”

Source : Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.4, University of Michigan Press

“I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.”

“The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.”

“Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 19, 2017

“Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.”

Source : Song: Heat Of The Night, 1993

“I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.”

“Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.”

Source : "Whole Family Learning: Experiences Living and Teaching In China". Book by Joseph Will and Laurie Myers, 2015.