Beyond your... number of years

One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to live another year so that Nixon won't be President. If he's re-elected I'll have to live another four years.
-Rex Stout, novelist (1886-1975) [Nixon resigned in 1974.]

...frightfulness is temporary

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.
-Walt Disney, entrepreneur and animator (1901-1966)

you choose to...

The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.

-Ann Patchett, writer (b. 2 Dec 1963)

Landscape of ...

We are a landscape of all we have seen.
-Isamu Noguchi, sculptor and architect (1904-1988)

can betray is...

All a man can betray is his conscience.
-Joseph Conrad, novelist (1857-1924)

Future, not the past

...best men of all religions

Is there any religion whose followers can be pointed to as distinctly more amiable and trustworthy than those of any other? If so, this should be enough. I find the nicest and best people generally profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions.
-Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)

...out of an unread book

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live. 

-Holmes Rolston III, professor of philosophy 

...don't burn

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.
- Norman Thomas, minister and social reformer 

...and commerce settles

When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827)

...take it from any

Use only that which works and take it from any place you can find it.
-Bruce Lee, martial artist and actor 

...bring us together

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
-Eugene Ionesco, playwright