"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
— Jack Kerouac

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
— Jack Kerouac

"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."
— Jack Kerouac

"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry."
— Jack Kerouac

"Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream"
— Jack Kerouac

"The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view"
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

"Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all."
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

"Finding Nirvana is like locating silence."
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

"Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry."
— Jack Kerouac

"...and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?"
— Jack Kerouac

"Don't touch me, I'm full of snakes."
— Jack Kerouac

"What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?"
— Jack Kerouac

"It all ends in tears anyway."
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

"If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."
— Jack Kerouac

"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Jack Kerouac

"The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars."
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

"all day long
wearing a hat
that wasn't on my head"
— Jack Kerouac

"Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great stange dream."
— Jack Kerouac

"Rocks are space, and space is illusion."
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together."
— Jack Kerouac

"Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom."
— Ken Kesey

"To hell with facts! We need stories!"
— Ken Kesey

"The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have, so they stop thinking. "
— Ken Kesey