Today

“Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group… If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.”

• Carl Sagan, COSMOS

“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”

• Roy T. Bennett

“First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.”

• Aberjhani

How could you argue sense into someone who believed something, not because it was true, but because he was an idiot?

• Lois McMaster Bujold

“I distrust people who know so well what god wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”

• Susan B. Anthony