"It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination." - Henry David Thoreau

"In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves." -Albert Einstein

"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means." -Clarence Darrow

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Mahatma Gandhi

"Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance." -Epicurus

"Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life, making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious. " - Rabindranath Tagore