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“It is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million lives were lost in every war, the net effect of science would still have been to increase the average length of life.”
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“The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.”
Source : "'The Best Exotic Marigold' star Penelope Wilton". Interview with John Clark, www.sfgate.com. April 29, 2012. 
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“I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.”
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“Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.”
Source : Shelagh Delaney (1963). “Sweetly Sings the Donkey”
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“Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.”
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“I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.”
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“The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.”
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“What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.”
Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.344, The New Press
