Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.

Orwell couldn't see that Big Brother would not be The State, but The Corporation.

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity.

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.