"Now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

-- Umberto Eco

"If you're looking for real enjoyment of the world, the most important thing is to preserve a healthy state of mind, capable of subtle pleasures and a deeply satisfying relationship to things -- and this is what constant stimulation destroys."

-- Michael LaFargue

"There's nothing wrong with the world; what's wrong is our way of looking at it."

-- Henry Miller

"The world belongs to those with the most energy."

-- Alexis de Tocqueville

"It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol buddy .. let's go exploring!"

-- Calvin's last words (Bill Waterson)

"This is a world of process, not a world of things."

-- Margaret Wheatley

"For me, if you are able to laugh, you are the owner of the world."

-- Roberto Benigni

"Love is the medicine for the sickness of the world."

-- Karl Menninger

"There are only two things in this world, semantics and nothing."

-- Werner Erhard

"Pure undistorted Truth burns up the world."

-- Nikolai Berdyayev

"Be careful how you interpret the world; it is like that."

-- Erich Heller

"The world is too dangerous for anything but truth, and too small for anything but love."

-- William Sloane Coffin