All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. … No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. … Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot get back to seeing the part as the whole. -Ursula K. Le Guin-

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. -Albert Einstein-

America is not just a country, it’s an idea. -Bono-

If sailing was easy it would be called quantum mechanics.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. -Mark Twain-

When I works, I works hard. When I plays, I plays loose. And when I sits and thinks, I falls asleep.

A view of the water is not a matter of life or death. It’s more important than that. -Down The Hatch Seafood Restaurant, Ponce Inlet, Florida-

Until world order is an accomplished fact, and universal disarmament the logical result, it will be a crime to excuse men from the types and kinds of training that will give them a decent chance for survival in battle. -Dwight D. Eishenhower-

Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. -Philippians 4:8-

Life is going on out there, while here I sit eating doughnuts and watching cartoons. Reality is overrated. -Garfield-