SPR Favorite Quotes
Collected here as I happen upon them.

The spontaneous generation of life on the earth would have been as likely as the assemblage of a 727 aircraft by a tornado passing through a junkyard.

—Sir Fred Hoyle, Astronomer

When nothing more needs to be said, the smoke of ideas clears, the mountain is seen.

—Thomas Merton

If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go you'll find you've gone.

—Burt Monro

Love God and live as you will.

—Saint Augustine

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

—Mark Twain

Stuff is getting better every day.

—Kevin Costner as the Postman quoting President Richard Starkey.

There is no greater gift to a man than that which turns all his aims into parching lips and all life into a fountain. ...Whenever I come to the fountain to drink I find the living water itself thirsty; And it drinks me while I drink it.

—Kahlil Gibran as The Prophet

It may be that in years to come men will scarce believe that one such as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.

—Albert Einstein at the death of Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi

What is, is right.

—Alexander Pope

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love.

—Thomas Merton