A passage from Grothendieck’s memoir.

"It eluded us then, but that's no matter -- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. ... And one fine morning ---- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"Then I would swim through them and on them, like stepping stones, like pinball, like progress and careers and love and life, like falling upwards." — I love Matt's blog.

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gives his last lecture at the university.

"It is in the trees, it is in the gas giants, in the nebulae, in a future wrought of laughter and imagination and intent. It's in music. It is so pervasive and so utterly, indescribably beautiful." And it's easier to see if you're in love.