H.G. Wells (Author of The Time Machine)

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Our true nationality is mankind.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

If you feel down yesterday, Stand up today.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.