I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time."

--JACK LONDON, attributed

". . . They will gaze up and strain
to find the blue dot in their skies.
They will love it no less for its
obscurity and fragility. They will
marvel at how vulnerable the repository
of all our potential once was, how
perilous our infancy, how humble our
beginnings, how many rivers we had to
cross before we found our way."

--CARL SAGAN