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

“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)

“Fashion is that by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal." (Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray)

Only in Ohio do you get four seasons in one day.

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” (Aristotle Onassis)

"Death is the last and best reward for a life well lived." (Bob Weir)

"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)

“Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant garde that the ‘ins’ and the ‘outs’ change places with the speed of mach 3.” (Igor Stravinsky)

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” (The Gospel of Thomas, a non-canonical, Coptic-language, gnostic gospel consisting of 114 sayings from [they say] Jesus; later suppressed as heresy by early church fathers, only to be rediscovered in 1940s Upper Egypt)

"Zeus, who guided men to think,
who has laid it down that wisdom
comes alone through suffering.
Still there drips in sleep against the heart
grief of memory; against
our pleasure we are temperate
From the gods who sit in grandeur
grace comes somehow violent."

(Aeschylus, Agamemnon)