Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life.
... the more you know about life, the more you get out of it.
The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.
We take everything for granted, but when I'm with Angeline, I see the world through new eyes. She makes my world better. It's why she's so great.
We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.
