Let us endeavor to live so that when we die, even the undertaker will be sorry.
-Mark Twain

God's work is not done by God; it's done by people.
-Ani DiFranco

If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve enough to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.
-Kurt Vonnegut

There are things that are known and things that are unknown, and in-between, there are doors.
-William Blake

Jouer le tout pour le tout.
-Eugene Ionesco

I'm off on a rocketship prepared for something new.
I'm off on a rock-it ship ecstatic with the view.
I am scared of the things upcoming,
and I want for the things I don't have
Cannot stand to be one of many,
I'm not what they are.
-Guster

When you get to the top of the mountain, keep climbing.
-Zen proverb

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.
-Tom Robbins

Lord, grant I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
-Michalangelo

In music lies the ideal world, the closest we'll ever get to immortality. Whether it's Mahler or Louis Armsrong, Gregorian chants or Japanese bamboo flutes or some grog-rotten Celt on yonder bonnie ridge braying like a jackass through his bagpipes loud enough to raise the dead--it's resurrection. Temporary, but true, like life itself.
-Edward Abbey

Take comfort in your friends.
-R.E.M.

Why should we live in such a hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow.
-Henry David Thoreau

In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
-Oscar Wilde

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
-M.C. Escher

God is too big to fit into one religion.
-Bumper Sticker

The Messiah will only come when he's no longer needed.
-Franz Kafka

Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
-Anonymous

The way I figure it, Heaven and Hell are right here on Earth. Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he choses.
-Tom Robbins

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
-Jack Kerouac

I'm gonna keep on tryin' 'till I reach the Higher Ground.
-Stevie Wonder

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
-Mark Twain

It don't matter what happens, but I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.
-Jim Morrison

We, each of us, have a ticket to ride, and if the trip be interesting (if it's dull, we have only ourselves to blame), then we relish the landscape (how quickly it whizzes by!), interact with our fellow travelers... and hardly ever hold up the ticket to the light where we can read its plainly written destination: The Abyss.
-Tom Robbins

Living for dying is life without a reason.
-Machinery Hall

Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is Hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
-Dostoevski

The soft overcomes the hard;
the gentle overcomes the rigid.
Everyone knows this is true,
but few can put it into practice.
-Tao

When I get to the bottom, I go back to the top of the slide.
-Beatles

Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control.
-Phish

I'd face it as a wiseman would
And train for ill and not for good.
-A. E. Houseman

Some die just to live.
-Pearl Jam