Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau

You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend. – Michael Piller and Michael Wagner, Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Evolution,”

We are the products of editing, rather than authorship. – George Wald, “The Origin of Optical Activity,” Annals of the New York Academy of

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators. – Logan Pearsall Smith