Bill Newbold

“It is pure love when you ask God neither for release from punishment nor for increase of reward, nor even for the sweetness of his love in this life – unless it happens that you desire the sweetness at a particular time, to refresh your spiritual powers so that they do not fail on the way – but when you ask God for nothing but himself. And you have neither care nor concern whether you will be in pain or in bliss, so long as you have him whom you love. This is pure love.”
― Anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

“Vejur was everything that Spock had ever dreamed of becoming. And yet Vejur was barren! It would never feel pain. Or joy. Or challenge. It was so completely and magnificently logical that its accumulation of knowledge was totally useless.”
― Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek: The Motion Picture

“Begin anywhere.”
― John Cage

“If not now, when?”
― Rabbi Hillel