Neal Stephenson Quote

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

Everything started as nothing.

After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.Third should come understanding.Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored, and new plans set in motion.

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies - and our sp...

Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.