Emanuil Albert

“Humility is the awareness that there’s a lot you don’t know and that a lot of what you think you know is distorted or wrong.”
― David Brooks, The Road to Character

“She taught me to love by loving me, and I learned—rather slowly; I wasn’t too good a pupil, being set in my ways and lacking her natural talent. But I did learn. Learned that supreme happiness lies in wanting to keep another person safe and warm and happy, and being privileged to try.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“I’ve been broke even oftener than I’ve been wealthy. Of the two, being broke is more interesting, as a man who doesn’t know where his next meal is coming from is never bored. He may be angry or several other things—but not bored. His predicament sharpens his thoughts, spurs him into action, adds zest to his life, whether he knows it or not.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“If the universe has any purpose more important than topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I've never heard of it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love