Edmund Cooper

The colour of the skin is less important than the spirit wich moves it.

Mankind has never been renowned for accepting logical solutions to its most serious problems. As a rule, the degre of logicality of solutions seemed to vary inversely with the urgency or seriousness of the problems.

But then history was made by fools.

And yet to be without hope is almost to be without sanity.

Courage has many faces.

Those who look for death have to wait patiently till death finds those who look.

Men who are afraid live longer.

To be with child does not diminish beauty, but changes the shape of beauty.

He who expects little is rarely disappointed.

But in adversity, intelligence alone cannot sustain hope. Ultimately, hope can be sustained only by finding purpose in adversity, by imposing a pattern on the fortuitous disasters of existence. Human beings, if force to it, will compromise their intelligence to preserve their hope.

All living things sustain each other. All living things depend upon death not as an end, an absolute completion, but as a beginning of a new rhythm, a way of fulfillment in passing on the restless force of life.

It is not in the nature of man to accept permanent failure.