I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd like to see the world as it was a million years ago and a million years hence.

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.

If you can't find the exact quote you want, make it up.

The examined life is no picnic.

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

If we could just figure out how to have more fun at it, maybe more of us would join the ranks of those who seek after justice and mercy.

So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn’t apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it