Michael

“We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave—to the ancient enemies of man—half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all.”
― Adlai Stevenson, Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (Classic Reprint): With a Foreword

“I never could believe that Providence
had sent a few men into the world,
ready booted and spurred to ride, and
millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.”
― Richard Rumbold

“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.”
― John Steinbeck

“Qualities too elevated often unfit a man for society. We don't bring ingots with us to market; we take silver or small change.”
― Chamfort