Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. ― Terry Pratchett

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Søren Kierkegaard

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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. ― Arthur C. Clarke

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Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand. ― Dan Brown

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Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. - David Ben-Gurion

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The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. ― Douglas Adams

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