"There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas's court. You can visit the woman you love, slide down beside her and stroke her still sleeping face. You can build castles in Spain, steal the Golden Fleece, discover Atlantis, realize your childhood dreams and adult ambitions." Jean-Dominique Bauby (while he only could blink his left eye as a result of a stroke)

"When blessed silence returns,I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside my head. To hear them, one must be calm and pay close attention, for their wing beats are barely audible. Loud breathing is enough to drown them out. This is astonishing: my hearing does not improve, yet I hear them better and better. I must have butterfly hearing." Jean-Dominique Bauby

"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you." Sigmund Freud

"The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly." Richard Bach

"If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?" Richard Bach

"You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however." Richard Bach

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." Richard Bach

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a false messiah." Richard Bach

"You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past." Richard Bach

"That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning." Richard Bach

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." Lao Tzu

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."Native American proverb

"How can we say that there is peace when so many go hungry?" Oscar Arias Sanchez

"Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded." William Hazlitt

"Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead." Mark Twain

"Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it." Honore de Balzac

"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy." Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause." Baltasar Gracian

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." Plato

"The biggest achievement of humankind is to deprive other creatures from happiness, including humankind himself "

"What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."--Henry D. Thoreau

"Peace is not the absence of war, but it is the presence of justice."

"When the rich make war it's the poor that die." --Jean-Paul Sartre

"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." -- Ludwig Borne

"This I believe:
That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
And this I would fight for:
The freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
And this I must fight against:
Any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual." -- John Steinbeck

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." -- George Bernard Shaw

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be21 , I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." --Mark Twain

"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog." --Mark Twain

"By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed." --Mark Twain

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." --Mark Twain

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." --Mark Twain

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." --Mark Twain

"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language." --Mark Twain

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them." --Mark Twain

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man." --Mark Twain

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." --Mark Twain

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either." --Mark Twain

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." --Mark Twain

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." --Mark Twain

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up." --Mark Twain

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact." --Mark Twain

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." --Mark Twain

"Humor is also a way of saying something serious." T. S. Eliot

"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance." --Hippocrates

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." --Immanuel Kant

"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young." --Konrad Lorenz

"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss." --Noam Chomsky

"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy." --Richard Feynman

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard Feynman

"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on." --Richard Feynman

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them." --Sir William Bragg

"It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward." --Thomas H. Huxley

"The house-roof fights with the rain, but he who is sheltered ignores it." -- Wolof

"If you want sex while traveling, travel with your wife." -- Minyanka of Mali proverb

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life." -- Sandra Carey

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." --Mahatma Gandhi

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." --Mahatma Gandhi

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." --Pablo Picasso

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance." --Bruce Barton