A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth, be ready for the unexpected.

Heraklietos of Ephesos, 535 – 475 BCE

The adaptive advantage has often gone to those who ventured upon their possibility with cries of exultant commitment…What is adaptive about play, therefore, may be not only the skills that are a part of it, but also the willful belief in acting out one’s capacity for the future.

Robin Marantz Henig, Taking Play Seriously,
The New York Times Magazine, 2008

A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Sometimes in life it’s the only weapon we have.

Roger Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

…it is never a time for war but it is always a time for art.

Wafaa Bilal (p. 94 Shoot an Iraqi)