Quotes ...

          "Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out
           what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of
           questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you
           find out how it ends" (Joseph Campbell)

          "Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a 
           target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like 
           happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does 
           so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to 
           a course greater than oneself"  (Viktor Frankl)

          "Perform your duty and abandon all attachment to success or
          failure"  (Bhagavad Gita 2:48)

          "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it"
           (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

          "The only reward of virtue is virtue"   (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

          "e pluribus unum"
          ("Out of Many, One" -- best national motto ever in the history of the human species)

          "Vincit qui se vincit"
          ("He conquers who conquers himself")

          "Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347)
          ("But who watches the watchers?")

          "As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good 
           becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by 
           virtuous action, bad by bad action."  (Bhagavad Gita)

          "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not 
           everything that counts can be counted"  (Albert Einstein)

          "It's not what you don't know that hurts you most, it's what 
           you know that ain't so" (Will Rogers)

          "As for actions, that action in accordance with duty, which
           is performed without attachment, without love or hate, by one
           who has renounced fruitive results, is called action in the
           mode of goodness"   (Bhagavad Gita 18:23)

          "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to
           the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to
           the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet
           favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them
           all"   (Ecclesiastes 9:10-11) 

          "Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human 
           beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any 
           preference to claim over another. You are brothers." 
           (Final sermon of Muhammad)

          "Every endeavor is covered by some sort of fault, just as
           fire is covered by smoke. Therefore one should not give up
           the work which is born of one's nature, even if such work is
           full of fault"    (Bhagavad Gita 18:48)

          "It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving 
           than to make a mistake in punishing" (Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1011)

          "The only lesson learned from lessons learned is that no one 
           learns from lessons learned"  (BBC, quoting the concluding statement 
           of a French government report on a debacle in the 1950s)

          "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents 
           and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents 
           eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it"
           (Max Planck)
           [Condensed version: "Science advances one funeral at a time"]

          "The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over 
           again, often in a slightly more unstable version."
           (J.K. Galbraith)
	  
          What Carl Sagan said in the section titled "Reflections by Sagan" at the 
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