"Happiness
isn't happiness
unless there's
a violin-playing goat."
Julia Roberts

"To be human
is to keep rattling the bars
of the cage of existence,
hollering,
'What's it for?'"
Robert Fulghum

"Clearly, then,
the city is not
a concrete jungle,
it is a human zoo."
Desmond Morris

"The wild, cruel beast
is not behind
the bars of the cage.
He is in front of it."
Axel Munthe

"From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea."
Algernon Charles Swinburne

"The surest way
to make a monkey
of a man
is to quote him."
Robert Benchley

"To enjoy freedom
we have
to control ourselves."
Virginia Woolf

"God, I can push
the grass apart
and lay my finger
on Thy heart."
Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Let him
that would move
the world
first move
himself."
Socrates