_Quotes

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), Chapter 16

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. - Douglas Adams, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), Introduction http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Money

Hell is paved with good samaritans. - William M. Holden

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life. - Eric Hoffer, Before the Sabbath (1979), p. 139 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Money

Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment. - Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100 (1979), #4029, Part 41 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Life

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! - Orson Welles as the character Harry Lime in the film The Third Man (1949)