Quotes for the week

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English — up to fifty words used in correct context — no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. – Carl Sagan

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that: it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. It will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.— Leo Tolstoy

My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother. — Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anais Nin

“We were not meant to suffer so much & to learn nothing.” — Alice Walker.

We can have a democratic society or…concentration of great wealth in the hands of the few. We can’t have both. ~ Justice Louis Brandeis