"We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world."

“judge not that ye be not judged”

“It’s the quiet life of obedience that will earn a hearing”

Source : Steve Farrar (2006). “King Me: What Every Son Wants and Needs From His Father”, p.171, Moody Publishers

“It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.”

“The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.”

Source : Frances Perkins, Joseph Paul St. Sure (1965). “Two views of American labor”

“Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.”

Source : "The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons From Extraordinary Lives". Book by Katie Couric, www.today.com. 2011.

“You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

“The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly independent of sunlight-previously thought to be the font of all Earth's life-has startling ramifications. If life could flourish there, nurtured by a complex chemical process based on geothermal heat, then life could exist under similar conditions on planets far removed from the nurturing light of our parent star, the Sun.”

Source : "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe". Book by Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, 2003.

“[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.”