"Everything seems an echo of something else." -- Robert Penn Warren

"Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices— just recognize them." -- Edward R. Murrow

"If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath." -- Mary Wollstonecraft

"It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done." -- Terry Pratchett

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason." -- Jerry Seinfeld

"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again." -- Carl Friedrich Gauss

* "DON'T PANIC" -- Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy --