“ We’d like to think that our youth was madder, brighter, happier than it was. It comforts us as we grow older, to believe that once upon a time we danced at dawn in a fountain. Robert Nathan
“ There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit… Arthur Schopenhauer
“ Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. Albert Einstein