"When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am the Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. When they are again become sober they have drawn from the sea all that they brought with them, all that they can bring with them to dry land. I have not a single friend, I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to other artists; I associate with Him without fear; I have always recognized and understood Him and have no fear for my music—it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must be freed by it from all the miseries which the others drag about with themselves." (Ludwig van Beethoven)

"He who can lick can bite." (French proverb)

"Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind." (Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces)

"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful." (Mae West)

"Once the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place." (Philip Roth)

“Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.” (Will Rogers)

"The city lifts its hand like a cripple, O my lord Shu-Sin,
It lies at thy feet like a lion-cub, O son of Shulgi.
O my god, the wine-maid has sweet wine to give,
Like her date-wine sweet is her vulva, sweet is her wine..."

(Sumerian love song, 3rd Millennium BCE)

Mark Zuckerberg kills goats with laser guns.

“Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)

"It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage." (Indiana Jones)

“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, and a hundred in dress.” (Joyce Carey)

“Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.” (Edward Coke)

“I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.” (Cicero)

"If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled." (Robert Burton)

"Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're a king." (Josephine Hull)

"Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." (Mark Twain)

"In the place where I am now, I look back over my life. I look back at the world I’ve left behind. What message do I want to leave? I want to make sure that you all understand that each and every one of you has a role to play. You may not know it, you may not find it, but your life matters, and you are here for a reason...

"And I just hope that reason will become apparent as you live through your life. I want you to know that, whether or not you find that role that you’re supposed to play, your life does matter, and that every single day you live, you make a difference in the world. And you get to choose the difference that you make." (Jane Goodall's final message to the world, spoken six months before her death)

"Money is the wise man's religion." (Euripides)

“Ignorance is no excuse, it’s the real thing.” (Irene Peter)

"America is the sublime and the abominable." (Jean-Pierre Melville)