Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of the billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things within that enormous immensity. Werner Von Braun
Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky. John Noble Wilford
Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable. Fran Lebowitz
Books break the shackles of time – proof that humans can work magic. Carl Sagan
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall. Roald Dahl
If I don’t practice for one day, I know it; if I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it; if I don’t practice for three days, the audience knows it. Jan Paderewski
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. Socrates
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. Emilie Buchwald
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. Carl Sagan
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Fernando Pessoa
Think before you speak. Read before you think. Fran Lebowitz
Having a daughter does not make a man decent. Having a wife does not make a decent man. Treating people with dignity and respect makes a decent man. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I don’t think all people who voted for Brexit are stupid. I just think they want better control over European immigration because they don’t like Pakistanis. Frankie Boyle
Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. Alan Moore