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- It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Mirror Dance", 1994
- I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Mirror Dance", 1994
- May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
- Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, 1995
- Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self-Reliance", 1841
- The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
- Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy
- How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.
- Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
- I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality
- You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
- Wayne Gretzky (1961 - )
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