Lee

“...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy..”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky