Our limited perspective, our hopes and fears become our measure of life, and when circumstances don’t fit our ideas, they become our difficulties. – Ben Franklin

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. – Richard Carlson

We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself. – Carl Sagan

Dear Sirs,

I Am.

– G.K. Chesterton