"How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it's not easy."

“It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.”

“If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.”

“Death will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then there'll be no time, what will you do? "This I have not done. And this I'm only starting. And this - I'm only halfway through ..." Then is the sudden coming of the Lord of Death, And oh, the thought 'Alas, I'm finished.'”

“Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.”

“The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.”

“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

“No. I just never wanted to throw them away. Even if they were broken. I still loved them.”

“A feeling of disquiet continues to haunt me. As a youth one dreams of love; by the time one wakes, it is too late.”

Source : Sandra Gulland (2002). “The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B: A Novel”, p.150, Simon and Schuster