"The Dao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand."
Laozi

"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
Carl Sagan

"Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world."
Miyamoto Musashi

"All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."
GK Chesterton

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
GK Chesterton

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink, when they wake up that's as good as they'll feel all day"
 Frank Sinatra

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."
Ayn Rand

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty."
Oscar Wilde