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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? To surrender dreams – -this may be madness; to seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness! But maddest of all – -to see life as it is and not as it should be.
~Miguel de Cervantes

I don’t care what you believe, just believe it.
~Shepherd Book

There’s no point in being grown-up if you can’t be childish sometimes.
~The Doctor

The intent of a question is sometimes as important as the answer.
~Jeffrey Sinclair

I believe that when we leave a place, a part of it goes with us and a part of us remains. Go anywhere in these halls when it is quiet and just listen. After awhile you will hear the echoes of all of our conversations, every thought and word we’ve exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that is going will very much miss the part of you that is staying.
~G’Kar

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
~P.T. Barnum

What matter illness to a Knight-Errant? What matter wounds? For each time he falls he shall rise again, and woe to the wicked!
~Don Quixote

But you did go an hour without killing me. And if you can go an hour, maybe you can go a day, then a week. And then maybe, just maybe, a lifetime.
~Rev

I have decided to take the simplest approach to life of all. Simplest and best, best is the word. I’ve decided to excel at everything.
~Cyrano

“[A library] isn’t just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you—and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.”
~Isaac Asimov

The quickest path to a mistake is anger.
~ Unknown (character from Doctor Who)

Stop it! The enemy is out there, not in here!
~ Caesar Rodney, 1776, to the congress.

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
~ John Adams

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
~Jack Layton

(In response to the question, “Is there anything connected with the hopes of [the Tevatron accelerator] that in any way involves the security of the country?”) It has only to do with the respect with which we regard one another, the dignity of man, our love of culture. It has to do with: Are we good painters, good sculptors, great poets? I mean all the things we really venerate in our country and are patriotic about. It has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to make it worth defending.
~ Robert Wilson

God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.
~ Egyptian blessing

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
~ Steve Jobs

Faith manages.
~ Delenn