"Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains."
--Liber al vel Legis, chapter 2 verse 9
"First, stop being failures. It's absurd to judge ourselves against a scale larger than our own efforts. Do the right thing, help one another, raise the less fortunate without ulterior motives. Live simply, never lie, never steal, limit personal wealth, donate to charity, meditate, practise self-denial, live a pure life and spend some time as a monk. Above all, don't be afraid of nothingness, because the universe is full of it and therefore it must be natural and good. In this way of being 'no-mind', we escape ajiva and achieve enlightenment."
--Buckaroo Banzai
"There is always hope, because it's the one thing nobody has figured out how to kill yet."
--Galen, Babylon-5: Crusades
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
--Joseph Conrad
"They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two."
--Emma Bull, Bone Dance