You are by accident of fate, alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet - Carl Sagan

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. -David Gore

With a stout heart, a mouse can lift an elephant -Tibetan proverb

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. - Adlai Stevenson