We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. -Gandhi.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -Robin Williams.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. . -Carl Sagan.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. -Rabindranath Tagore.