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“Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.”
Source : "Hall of Fame Pitcher Bob Feller Dies at 92", www.foxnews.com. December 15, 2010.
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“Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.”
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“Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get there.”
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“I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.”
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“The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.”
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“Christian holiness is not a matter of painstaking conformity to the individual precepts of an external law code; it is rather a question of the Holy Spirit's producing His fruit in the life, reproducing those graces which were seen in perfection in the life of Christ.”
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“Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.”
Source : "The Lie of the Truth (Volume 2)". Book by Rene Daumal, 1938.
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“Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.”
Source : Murray Leinster (2002). “Med Ship”, p.141, Baen Publishing Enterprises