“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.” —Alfred D'Souza

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or however far away.” —Henry David Thoreau

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." ”
—George Bernard Shaw

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
— Johann von Goethe

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
— Robert Frost