Travis Rebello

“People say of death, 'There’s nothing to be frightened of.' They say it quickly, casually. Now let’s say it again, slowly, with re-emphasis. 'There’s NOTHING to be frightened of.' Jules Renard: “The word that is most true, most exact, most filled with meaning, is the word "nothing"'.”
― Julian Barnes, Nothing to Be Frightened Of

“If you don’t know what to do, there’s actually a chance of doing something new. As long as you know what you’re doing, nothing much of interest is going to happen.”
― Philip Glass, Words Without Music: A Memoir

“At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity, and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.”
― William Edward Hartpole Lecky, History of European Morals

“Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be travelled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.”
― Peter Singer, The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology