"All I need is Vaseline and the will to go on."
(Josh C. Collins, life motto)

"As regards the celebrated 'struggle for life,' it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality--where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power."
(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

"As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins."
(Albert Schweitzer)

"As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way."
(Jack Handey)

"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."
(Michael Caine)

"Between the penis and the mathematical one ... there exists nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum."
(Louis-Ferdinand Céline)

"Cry who will, laugh who can."
(Chinese Proverb)

"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."
(George Bernard Shaw)

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
(Harold Whitman)

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)