"The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.”  -- Teilhard de Chardin

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide."  --Abraham Lincoln

"History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends."  --Mark Twain

“The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose.”  --J.B.S. Haldane

“What is above is like what is below, and what is below is like that which is above. To make the miracle of the one thing.”  --Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus

“There are no dangerous thoughts for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise.”  --Hannah Arendt

“We are free to change the world and to start something new in it.  --Hannah Arendt