"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."  --Stephen Jay Gould

"When the rich, rob the poor, it’s called business. When the poor fight back it’s called violence."  --Anon

(misattributed to Mark Twain)

"A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness."  --Albert Einstein

"The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it."  --Chief Joseph

“Nothing worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.”  --Reinhold Niebuhr 

Colbert asks Keanu Reeves what happens when we die:

“I know that the ones who love us will miss us.”  --Keanu Reeves

"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."  --Keanu Reeves