Words to Live By

In science it often happens that scientists say, “You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,” and then they actually change their minds. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
— Carl Sagan

If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
— Robert Louis Stevenson

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
— Aristotle

Gravity doesn't pull you down — the ground pushes you up.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
— Eleanor Roosevelt