“If we cannot learn to …take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.”

“When we get there we’ll discover all of the gifts we’ve been given to share have been with us since life’s beginning and we never noticed they were there. We can balance at the brink of wisdom, never recognizing that we’ve arrived. Loving spirits will live together, we’re all swimming to the other side.”

I’ve been alone, and lonely,
and I know the difference now.