Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
Samuel Johnson
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
Isaac Asimov
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.
Socrates
... a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan