"Admiration spoils all from infancy...." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.”

“Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy,such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age of "universal education and sustenance of all humanity"."The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."”

“The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.”

“But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?”

“These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.”

“We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.”

“[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.”

“With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.”

“A child needs your love most when he deserves it least”