"We see things as we are, not as they are."
L. Rosten

"Proverbs often contradict one another,
as any reader soon discovers.
The sagacity that advises us to
look before we leap promptly warns us that
if we hesitate we are lost;
that absence makes the heart grow fonder,
but out of sight, out of mind."
L. Rosten

"Believe that life is worth living and
your belief will help create the fact."
W. James

"Life is a dream for the wise,
a game for the fool,
a comedy for the rich,
a tragedy for the poor."
S. Aleichem

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable,
but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
G. B. Shaw

"Some choices we live not once
but a thousand times over,
remembering for the rest of our lives."
R. Bach

"Courage is the capacity to
confront what can be imagined."
L. Rosten

"In three words I can sum up everything
I've learned about life: it goes on."
R. Frost

"Some things are so unexpected
that no one is prepared for them."
L. Rosten

"Make a difference about something other than yourselves."
T. Morrison

"One is responsible for creating one's own soul."
Y. Fern

"Beside, you can learn a lot about a person by the questions he asks of others.
It shows what is in his mind, what kind of quest he is on."
G. Roddenberry

"There is a wonderful thing created between two people
of like minds when they communicate.
What arises between us is some kind of truth.
And it only arises because you are you and I am me."
G. Roddenberry

"Credo quid absurdum." English Translation - "I believe because it is absurd."
Q. S. F. Tertulianus

"It is a breath of life, this God thing.
It's not a thing you pray to,
it's a thing you use to
answer your own prayers.
Humanity needs God in order to
be humanity -
It's part of them."
G. Roddenberry

"God is like a leap
outside oneself -
something that has
no discernible source,
but is a source."
G. Roddenberry

"I reject religion.
I accept the notion of God."
G Roddenberry

"And I don't pretend that in
every aspect of the world
that I do know the answer.
But I don't know anyone
who knows it better than I do."
G. Roddenberry

"Mankind will reach maturity on the day it
learns to value diversity of life and ideas."
G. Roddenberry

"My imagination never fails me."
G. Roddenberry

"...we have the future not only in our hands,
but quite literally in our minds."
G. Roddenberry

"I feel an obligation to try."
G. Roddenberry

"Maybe the books are wrong."
R. Bach

"Is there nothing goes through our mind that has no meaning?"
R. Bach

"Unclouded vision ahead
requires that you
deal with what is."
G. Roddenberry

"Dogma, one learns,
is a metaphor - made literal,
for the lazy or the inept."
Me misquoting Y. Fern

"Question hold us puzzled for years,
then a storm of answers come
sudden from the unknown,
arrows from bows we've never seen."
R. Bach

"Thoughts are the only province of pure being left to us."
Y. Fern

"It's a terrible mistake
to think that the future
is somewhere off
in a distant time.
It is here is in embryo."
G. Roddenberry

"The correct use of power feeds creativity.
And the incorrect use of power destroys it."
G. Roddenberry

"It is the questions that matter."
G. Roddenberry