• Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
• Then you shall judge yourself,” the king answered. “that is the most difficult thing of all. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
• Language is the source of misunderstandings.

          – The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry

TThe things you own end up owning you.

 – Fight Club 1999

OOne minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.

– One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

IIf we increase the size of the penguin until it is the same height as the man and then compare the relative brain size, we now find that the penguin’s brain is still smaller. But, and this is the point, it is larger than it was!

 – Monty Python’s Flying Circus

• What’s your road, man? — holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It’s an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-byThey have worries, they’re counting the miles, they’re thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they’ll get there — and all the time they’ll get there anyway, you see. But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won’t be at peace until they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flits by them and they know it and that too worries them no end. 
• Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
• “Sal, we gotta go and neverstop going till we get there.”
   “Where we going, man?”
   “I don’t know but we gotta go.”

Behind us lay the whole of America and everything Dean and I had previously known about   life, and life on the road. We had finally found the magic land at the end of the road and we never dreamed the extent of the magic.

– On the Road  by Jack Kerouac

•  Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.  I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

– John 14:27

• Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city.

– Proverbs 16:32

• Two are better than one,
  because they have a good return for their work:If one falls down,
  his friend can help him up.
  But pity the man who falls
  and has no one to help him up!Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
  But how can one keep warm alone?

– Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

“Never judge things by their appearance… even carpetbags. I’m sure I never do.”

“There’s the whole world at your feet. And who gets to see it but the birds, the stars, and the chimney sweeps.”  – Bert

“In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and – the job’s a game! “

– Mary Poppins 1964 – 

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