And there still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of Love and Art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, … - Arthur C. Clarke

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

Faith in one’s own destiny was among the most valuable of the gifts which the gods could bestow upon a man,

There were other thinkers, Bowman also found, who held even more exotic views. They did not believe that really advanced beings would possess organic bodies at all. Sooner or later, as their scientific knowledge progressed, they would get rid of the fragile, disease-and-accident-prone homes that Nature had given them, and which doomed them to inevitable death. They would replace their natural bodies as they wore out — or perhaps even before that — by constructions of metal and plastic, and would thus achieve immortality.