"Faith is believing what you know ain't so." -- Mark Twain

"The meek shall inherit the Earth; the rest of us will go to the stars." (don’t know)

"Ad Astra per Aspera" trans. "To the stars through difficulties" -- State Motto of Kansas (and NASA)

"I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, Itake my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods." -- Claudius Ptolemaeus

"If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to thiscountry to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen." Gus Grissom, three weeks before he was killed in the Apollo 1 fire.

"And what is it to die, but to melt into the sun?" -- Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet)

"The only constant in the universe is change." Spock, in Star Trek

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." -- James Thurber

"Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance." (don’t know)

"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither." -- Thomas Jefferson

"We hold these truths to be self-evident…."

"Never before have so many owed so much to so few." -- Churchill

"…that government of the People, by the People, and for the People, shall not perish from the earth." -- Lincoln (capitalization from Library of Congress holographs of the original).

"Music is that which reveals to us the subconscious structures of the mind." -- Douglas Hoffstedter, Goedel, Escher, Bach (p. 624).

"Then sing aloud to God our strength. Make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob. For Babylon the Great has fallen. Alleluia!" -- Osbert Sitwell from biblical sources, in Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast.

"Let there be light." -- Genesis