Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life. – Baker Brownell, The College and the Community, 1952

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewi

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work — that goes on, it adds up. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust — we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. – Albert Einstein, in The Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929