"Being split into two halves is no theory with me, Doctor. I have a human half, you see, as well as an alien half... submerged, constantly at war with each other. Personal experience, Doctor. I survive it because my intelligence wins out over both, makes them live together." Spock, to McCoy
"Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it." Marcus Aurelius
"The goal is not to get people to like you. It's to love those that, for whatever reason it may be, have shown hate to you. To respond in kindness where cruelty or hatred is shown. To be a source of love in their life that they may have never been shown before. Out of our own hurt, we tend to act in kind. Learning I must not merely turn the other cheek but extend my heart to those who hate. Who knows, it may be the only source of kindness they get the chance to see? What an opportunity. Compassion is freedom. :)" Curt Mega