“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.”
-Epictetus

"I used the imaginary kingdom not as a sentimentalized fairyland but as an opening wedge to express what I hoped would be some very hard truths."
-Lloyd Alexander

"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense."
-Carl Sagan

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
-Stephen Hawking

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
-Leonardo da Vinci

"Every part of me then will be reduced by change into some part of the universe, and that again will change into another part of the universe, and so on forever."
–Marcus Aurelius

“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
-William Gibson

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
-Albert Einstein

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging."
-Joseph Campbell

“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.”
-Seneca

“Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure”
-Tacitus

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
-Moliere

“It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for whatever he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.”
-Seneca

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
-Marcus Aurelius

"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- its essence -- has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all."
-Isaac Asimov

“We begin to lose our hesitation to do immoral things when we lose our hesitation to speak of them.”
-Musonius Rufus

"Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it."
-Rumi

"Justice may be slow and invisible, but it always renders its true verdict in the end."
-Colson Whitehead

"We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality."
– Theodore Roosevelt

"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
-Immanuel Kant

"The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again."
-B. F. Skinner

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
-Marcus Aurelius

"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."
-David Hume

“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
-Plato

"What worries you, masters you."
-John Locke

“It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin

“We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”
-Howard Zinn

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
-Leonardo da Vinci