The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.Aristotle
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.Dalai Lama
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.Napoleon Bonaparte
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.Friedrich Nietzsche
Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.Bill Gates
September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That's all to the good.Noam Chomsky