All around the world and it all times, it is freedom of thought and freedom of expression that have proved the most essential conditions for human flourishing. The best response to expression of a view you disagree with is to reply to it. Violence and censorship are never legitimate responses. Help someone today.

When your burden is heavy and the road is long, take a deep breath and step forward one foot at a time.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. Og Mandino

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Carl Sagan

The most important thing you will ever do in your life is learn to embrace your unique, honest self. A boundless, infinitely populated universe and there is nothing else here quite like you. This is your power. All those things that make you strange and different also make you irreplaceable. Beau Taplin