"When it's dark enough you can see the stars." ∼ Charles A. Beard

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars." ∼ Henry Van Dyke

"Even a stone can be a teacher." ∼ Sheldon Kopp

"The beginnings of all things are small" - Cicero

"It's all right to have a train of thoughts if you have a terminal." ∼ Bowker

"Some things have to be believed to be seen" - Ralph Hodgson

"Do not fail to learn from the pure voice of an ever-flowing mountain stream splashing over the rocks." ∼ Morihei Ueshiba

"Wonder is involuntary praise." ∼ Young

"Confusion is the doorway to a new understanding." ∼ unknown

I keep six honest serving men
(They taught me all I knew)
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
∼ Rudyard Kipling

"He lives in wisdom who sees himself in all and all in him." ∼ Bhagavad Gita

"Ideals are like the stars–we never reach them, but like mariners on the sea, we chart our course by them." ∼ Carl Schurz

"My life seems to be one long obstacle course with me as the chief obstacle." ∼ Jack Paar

Twelve things to remember: the value of time, the success of perseverance, the pleasure of working, the dignity of simplicity, the worth of character, the power of kindness, the influence of example, the obligation of duty, the wisdom of economy, the virtue of patience, the improvement of talent, the joy of originating. ∼ Marshall Field

To care, to be fair, to be humble.
When a man cares he is unafraid.
When he is fair he leaves enough for others.
When he is humble he can grow. ∼ Lao Tzu

"The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth." ∼ Norman Cousins

"Now, there is a third theory of nature which is Chinese, and it is very interesting. The Chinese word for nature is tzu-jan, and this expression means "of itself, so," or what happens of itself."
...
"Their greater principle of nature is called the Tao, pronounced 'dow' in the Mandarin dialect, 'tow' in the Shanghai dialect, 'toe' in the Cantonese dialect, so take your choice. Tao means the course of nature, and Lao-tzu, who was a philosopher living a little later than 400 B.C., wrote a book about the Tao. He said, 'The Tao which can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.' In opther words, you cannot describe it."
...
"In Confucian philosophy, the fundamental virtue of a human being is called jen. It is a Chinese character that Confucius placed as the highest of all virtues, higher than righteousness, higher than benevolence, and it means approximately human-heartedness. Now, Confucius once said that "goody-goodies are the thieves of virtue." Virtue in Chinese is teh, and it means virtue not in the sense of moral propriety, but virtue in the sense of magic, as when we speak of the healing virtues of a certain plant. A man of true virtue is therefore a human-hearted man." ∼ Alan Watts in the book The Tao of Philosophy 

"Wiggles of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your names."∼ Alan Watts

"W is the 23rd letter of the modern English alphabet. W has 2 points down and 3 points up."

"A weaker [person] might be moved to re-examine [their] faith, if in nothing else at least in the law of probability."

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." ∼  Maybe Albert Einstein, or not.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/04/20/coincidence/
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/04/16/chance-nickname/

"The pragmatic rule is that the meaning of a concept may always be found, if not in some sensible particular which it directly designates, then in some particular difference in the course of human experience which its being true will make." ∼  William James

"The bee that robs the flower also fertilizes it." ∼ Charles A. Beard

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." ∼ Helen Keller

"There are two worlds; the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination." ∼ Leigh Hunt

"Our purpose in life is not to get ahead of other people--but to get ahead of ourselves." ∼ unknown

"Meanwhile I have the hat and you don't." ∼ from the movie Gorky Park

"Winners and losers. Losers and winners. Now there's a conceptual antagonism if ever I heard it." ∼ Alex McGregor (character, played by John Drew Barrymore, in the Kung Fu TV series episode A Dream Within A Dream)

"Conflict should always be so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." ∼ Alexander Pope

"Winning means winning over the discord in yourself." ∼ Morihei Ueshiba

A true warrior is always armed with the three things: the radiant sword of pacification; the mirror of bravery, wisdom, and friendship; and the precious jewel of enlightenment. ∼ Morihei Ueshiba

"Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress." ∼ Mahatma Gandhi

"To learn something new, take the path you took yesterday." ∼ John Burroughs

"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." ∼ Will Durant

"Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root." ∼ G. K. Chesterton

"Memory is the power to gather roses in winter." ∼ Dr. Ewen Cameron

"First keep peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others." ∼ Thoms A. Kempis

"The discontented man finds no easy chair." ∼ Benjamin Franklin

"To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life." ∼ Robert Louis Stevenson

"Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination." ∼ Lamartine

"Joy is not in things; it is in us." - Wagner

"A picture is a poem without words." - Horace

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." ∼ Robert Brault

There were three friends discussing life. One said, "Can we live together and know nothing of it, work together and produce nothing? Can people fly around in space and still forget to exist. World without end?" The three friends looked at each other and burst out laughing. They had no explanation. Thus they were better friends than before. ∼ Zhuang Tzu

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." ∼ Louisa Booth

"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; most are friends in spots." ∼ George Santayana

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." ∼ ????

"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; nor report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to conceal it." ∼ William Penn

"Nothing is easier than fault-finding; no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character are required to set up in the grumbling business." ∼ Robert West

"Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him." ∼ Henry Ward Beecher

"A fact was the hard outer covering of meaning, and meaning was the soft living stuff inside a fact. Fact and meaning were the driving cogs of living. If the gear of fact drove the gear of meaning, then they revolved in opposite directions, but put the gear of fantasy between the two and they both revolved in the same direction. Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off." ∼ from the book Mister God, This Is Anna by Fynn.

"The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.  I hardly know which feeling leads, wonderment or admiration." ∼ John Burroughs

"'Son, do you know how love should be begun?' The boy sat small and listening and still. Slowly he shook his head. The old man leaned closer and whispered: 'A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.'" ∼ Carson McCullers, from the short story A Tree • A Rock • A Cloud

"Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad." ∼ Longfellow

"When we lose a friend we die a little." ∼ Louisa Booth

"Loss has been a part of my journey,
but it has also shown me what is precious.
So has a love for which I can only be grateful.
∼ Theresa (character) in the movie Message in a Bottle

"Trexler found himself renewed by the remembrance that what he wanted was at once great and microscopic, and that although it borrowed from the nature of large deeds and of youthful love and of old songs and early intimations, it was not any one of these things, and that it had not been isolated or pinned down....Trexler felt invigorated. Suddenly his sickness seemed health, his dizziness stability. A small tree rising between him and the light, stood there saturated with the evening, each gilt-edged leaf perfectly drunk with excellence and delicacy.... 'I want the second tree from the corner, just as it stands"....And he felt a slow pride in realizing that what he wanted none could bestow, and that what he wanted none could take away." ∼ E.B. White, from the short story The Second Tree From The Corner

"Pay close attention to the curiosities of a child; this is where the search for knowledge is freshest and most valuable." ∼ Albert Einstein

"The meaning I discern at the level of cosmos is humility in the face of the deep beauty and mystery that confront us." ∼ Eugene T. Mallove, from the book The Quickening Universe.

"We have come alive in a cosmos that reflects meaning in every sinew, significance in every atom, yet were are free to ignore it entirely and spend our days immersed in a druglike stupor of superficiality. Of course, life is more than en exploration of meaning. It is for love and fellowship, for the pursuit of happiness, for play, and for the stress of survival, all of which are nurtured by human freedom and an absence of irrational dogmas that impose a sort of terrorism of the mind. But what a monumental waste if we should devote all our critical faculties, honed by aeons, completely to trivial pursuits–or worse, self destroying ones." ∼ Eugene T. Mallove, from the book The Quickening Universe.

"The one-sided contemplative leaves undone many things that he ought to do; but to make up for it, he refrains from doing a host of things he ought not to do. The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms. The contemplative whose perception has been clensed does not have to stay in his room." ∼ Aldous Huxley, from the book The Doors of Perception

"God made sin that we might know his mercy." ∼ Marco Venier (character) in the movie Dangerous Beauty

"I love children. They do not prattle of yesterday: their interests are all of today and the tomorrows." ∼ Richard Mansfield

"I had slept and dreamed that life was duty, but waked to find that life was beauty." ∼ M.P. Montague

"Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you have gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths–not until then can you know what love is." ∼ Henry Ward Beecher

"That life should appear commonplace to any man is evidence that he has invested it with the course habit of his thinking. Life is beautiful to whomsoever will think beautiful thoughts. There are no common people but they who think commonly and without imagination or beauty. Such are dull enough." ∼ Stanton Davis Kirkham

"Know what it is to be a child? It is to know something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism, it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief. It is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear. It is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness and nothing into everything–for each child has his fairy godmother in his own soul. It is to live in a nutshell and count yourself king of the infinite space; it is to see a world in a grain of sand, heaven in a wild flower, to hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour." ∼ Francis Thompson

"Blessed are the joymakers." ∼ N.P. Willis

"I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. A satisfied flower is one whose petals are about to fall. The most beautiful rose is one hardly more than a bud wherin the pangs and ecstacies of desire are working for larger and finer growth. Not always shall you be what you are now. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you and therefore I love you." ∼ Carl Sandburg

"To look fearlessly upon life; to accept the laws of nature, not with meek resignation, but as her sons, who dare to search and question; to have peace and confidence within our souls–these are the beliefs that make for happiness." ∼ Maeterlinck

"To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting." ∼ Stanislaus

"The less people speak of their greatness the more we think of it." ∼ Bacon

"The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it in turn will look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion." ∼ William Makepeace Thackeray

"Children are much nearer the inner truth of things than we are, for when their instincts are not perverted by the superfine wisdom of their elders, they give themselves up to a full, vigorous activity. Their's is the kingdom of heaven." ∼ Friedrich Froebel

"Children have more need of models than of critics." ∼ Joseph Joubert

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause." ∼ Theodore Roosevelt

"He who helps a child helps humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creatures in any other stage of human life can possibly give again." ∼ Phillips Brooks

"You read the book you turn the page
You change your life in a thousand ways
The dawn of reason lights your eyes
With the key you realize
To the kingdom of the wise"
∼ Alan Parsons Project

"A little work, a little play, to keep us going–and so, good-day! A little warmth, a little light, of love's bestowing–and so, good-night! A little fun, to match the sorrow, of each day's growing–and so, good morrow! A little trust that when we die, we reap or sowing! And so–good-bye!" ∼ George du Maurier

"I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." ∼ Thoreau

"Ya know somethin Wally? I'd rather do nothin with you than somethin with anybody else." ∼ from some TV show

"On the banks of this river, or on the banks of any other one, I spend most of my days with nothing to hold me back or impel me, to make me feel warm or cold. I look at what the river does, even if it does nothing. I see the trail it leaves in a dragged sequence of what was left behind. I look at it and ponder, not really about the river that flows, but only on my own thoughts, for I'm not aware of the river passing by. I go to the river's bank. It may be here or somewhere else, and I believe in its course, because whether I see it or not, the river always flows, and I trust the river." ∼ Fernando Pessoa

"Time, flowing like a river...to the sea." ∼ Alan Parsons Project

You can lose yourself–everything, all boundaries, all time–the two bodies can become so mixed up that you don't know who's who or what's what. And just when the sweet confusion is so intense you think you're gonna die, you kind of do, leaving you alone in your separate body. But the one you love is still there. That's a miracle. You can go to heaven and come back alive. You can go back anytime you want–with the one you love. ∼ Andrew (character) in the movie Bicentennial Man

Such surrender has been mine.
I confess I hunger still to be filled and inflamed.
To melt into the dream of us,
beyond this troubled place,
to where we are not even ourselves.
∼ Veronica Franco (character) in the movie Dangerous Beauty

"When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No... don't blush. I am telling you some truths. That is just being in love, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away. Doesn't sound very exciting, does it? But it is." ∼ Dr. Iannis (character played by John Hurt) in the movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin

"Do more than listen; understand" - John H. Rhoades

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in a stranger's gardens." ∼ Douglas Jerrold

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. ∼ Marshall Mcluhan

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." ∼ L.M. Alcott

"I've investigated reality and there's really nothing to it." ∼ Liz Vogel

"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed." ∼ Henrik Ibsen

"Imagination is the true magic carpet." ∼ Norman Vincent Peale

"The difficulty in life is the choice." ∼ George Moore

"Live and think" ∼Samuel Lover

"I like a little rebellion now and then. It's like a storm in the atmosphere." ∼ Thomas Jefferson

"There is no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence." ∼ Edmund Muskie

"Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to." ∼ John Ed Pearce

"Just because everything is different, doesn't mean anything has changed." ∼ Irene Peter

"One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it." ∼ French proverb

"A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time." ∼ Mark Twain

"Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul." ∼ Friedrich Froebel

"Children are like tiny flowers; they are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers." ∼ Friedrich Froebel

"Protect the new generation: do not let them grow up into emptiness and nothingness, to the avoidance of good hard work, to introspection and analyzation without deeds, or to mechanical actions without thought and consideration. Guide the young away from the harmful chase after outer things and the damaging passion for distraction." ∼ Friedrich Froebel

"The cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." ∼ Oscar Wilde

"Age asks with timidity to be spared intolerable pain; youth, taking fortune by the beard, demands joy like a right." ∼ Robert Louis Stevenson

"I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree.  A tree whose hungry mouth is prest, against the earth's sweet flowing breast; a tree that looks at God all day, and lifts her leafy arms to pray; a tree that may in summer wear, a nest of robins in her hair.  Upon whose bosom snow has lain; who intimately lives with rain.  Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree." ∼ Joyce Kilmer

"If a tree falls in the forest, we must listen." - unknown

Larry: "...you were looking for the opportunity to talk about life and death?"

Bob: "Sure. I guess so. Sure."

Larry: "Well, no, don't say 'sure'. I mean, it's not like, 'sure'. I mean, how am I supposed to know, Bob? Most people, you know, don't go around looking for opportunities to strike up conversations with total strangers about, you know, life and death and religion and things of that ilk."

Bob: "Some people do."

Larry: "Some people, yeah. I guess there's some people, and apparently you're one of them, but most people? No, Bob. Most people...if you ask about life and death, they say, 'hey, life is good, death is bad', the end. I mean, they don't go around looking for opportunities."

∼from the movie The Big Kahuna

~ You see, Cervantes, there is a difference between reality and illusion, and a difference between these prisoners and your men of lunacy.

~ I'd say, rather, men who's illusions were very real.

~ That's the same thing, isn't it, really? Why are you poets so fascinated with madmen?

~ We have much in common.

~ You both turn your backs on life.

~ We both select from life.

~ A man has to come to terms with life as it is.

~ Life as it is! I have lived for over forty years, and I have seen life as it is. Pain. Misey. Cruelty beyond belief. I've heard all the voices of God's noblest creature. Moans from bundles of filth on the street. I've been a soldier and a slave. I've seen my comrades fall in battle, or die more slowly under the lash in Africa. I held them at the last moment. These were men who saw life as it is, yet they died despairing. No glory. No brave last words. Only their eyes, filled with confusion, questioning 'Why?'. I do not think they we asking why they were dying, but why they had ever lived.
When life itself becomes lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

- from the movie The Man of La Mancha

Oh, maker of empty boasts. On this, of all nights, to give way to vanity. Nay, Don Quixote--take a deep breath of life and consider how it should be lived.
Call nothing thy own except thy soul. Love not what thou art, but only what thou may become. Do not pursue pleasure, for thou may have the misfortune to overtake it. Look always forward; in last year's nest there are no birds this year. Be just to all men. Be courteous to all women. Live in the vision of that one for whom great deeds are done...she that is called Dulcinea.

- Don Quixote, in the movie The Man of La Mancha

I shall impersonate a man. His name is Alonso Quijana, a country squire no longer young. Being retired, he has much time for books. He studies them from morn till night and often through the night and morn again, and all he reads oppresses him; fills him with indignation at man's murderous ways toward man. He ponders the problem of how to make better a world where evil brings profit and virtue none at all; where fraud and deceit are mingled with truth and sincerity. He broods and broods and broods and broods and finally his brains dry up. He lays down the melancholy burden of sanity and conceives the strangest project ever imagined.... to become a knight-errant, and sally forth into the world in search of adventures; to mount a crusade; to raise up the weak and those in need. No longer will he be plain Alonso Quijana, but a dauntless knight known as Don Quixote de La Mancha.

- Miguel de Cervantes (character) in the movie The Man of La Mancha

Though tombs the dust of men of genius claim
They still survive imortalized by fame.
Here with them thou mayst hold communion still
And of their wisdom freely drink they fill.
But what is learned, that must thou wisely do
If thou wouldst reap, for this is ever true
Who learns and learns but does not what he knows
Is one who plows and plows but never sows.
∼ "The Library", written by James Phinney Baxter

"Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. Divine master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life." ∼ Saint Francis of Assisi

"I can imagine no greater satisfaction for a person, in looking back on his life and work, than to have been able to give some people, however few, a feeling of genuine pride in belonging to the human species and, beyond that, a zestful yen to justify that pride." ∼ Norman Cousins

"This is the man, after all, who built a career treating sentences like Slinkys, or wrapping them around sticks of linguistic dynamite. He blasts through punctuation that would stop mere mortals. Then he . . . pauses. He runswordstogetherand . . . hepauses. Sometimes, he EMPHASIZES a word, then ANOTHER, sometimes FOR no . . . apparentreason!" ∼ Frank Ahrens, Washington Post Staff Writer,
writing about actor William Shatner, April 10, 2001.

The following quotes are from various episodes of the first Kung Fu television series.

Young Caine: Master, wherin does brotherhood lie?

Master Kan: A question most worth asking. Most worth considering.

Master Kan: It has been said that a man is three things: What he thinks he is, what others think he is, and what he really is. Which of these do you believe is the truth?

Caine: What he really is. But if a man is wrong about himself, and others are wrong about him, who is left to say what he really is?

Master Kan: At what point in time can a man be fixed and frozen if he is to live and grow?

Master Kan: Happy New Year, honorable demon.

Young Caine: Why do you not tremble before me?

Master Kan: Is the student Caine, then, so fearful?

Young Caine: No master.

Master Kan: Your Chi is not that of a demon, Kwai Chang, only a mask. Thus, while you appear to be a demon, your inner energies betray who you really are.

Young Caine: I suppose the trouble is I don't really want to be a demon.

Master Kan: Ah, you have hit on a profound truth. Can you now tell me what it is?

Young Caine: I must first decide who and what I want to be.

Master Kan: And then, in order to achieve that ideal?

Young Caine: I must become one with it.

Master Kan: Possess and be possessed by it, until you are one with what you will to be, and not merely a mask attempting to deceive yourself and others.

Caine: What happens in a man's life is already written. A man must move through life as his destiny wills.

Old Man: Yes, yet each man is free to live as he chooses. Though they seem opposite, both are true. I do not understand it.

Caine: You have taken in much, old man, like the waters of the Tao.

Master Kan: Perceive the way of nature and no force of man can harm you. Do not meet a wave head on: avoid it. You do not have to stop force: it is easier to redirect it. Learn more ways to preserve rather than destroy. Avoid rather than check. Check rather than hurt. Hurt rather than maim. Maim rather than kill. For all life is precious nor can any be replaced.

Caine: What you do not like is that your life depends on the promise of an Apache and the scruples of a Chinaman, which you do not understand. This is not an Indian or an Apache, but a man, who's name is Osky. I am not a Chinaman or a breed. I am a man. My name is Kwai Chang Caine.

Osky: It is my mission.

Caine: It is your burden. [Referring to revenge.]

???: You've learned to trust people, but doesn't it hurt you?

Caine: And you, not trusting, are you not hurt more?

???: How do you go through all that and not get twisted out of shape?

Caine: I seek not to know all the answers, but to understand the questions.

Master Kan: If, while building a house, a carpenter hits a nail, and it proves faulty by bending, does the carpenter lose faith in all nails and stop building his house?

Caine: Then we are required to trust, even if we are often reminded of the existence of evil.

Master Kan: Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good.

Caine: Master, I can not win this match.

Master Kan: In saying so, have you not already lost?

Caine: With every ending comes a new beginning.

The following quote is from the episode A Dream Within a Dream.

Master Po: What is it Grasshopper?

Caine: Demons. Demons trying to kill me.

Master Po: There are no demons here. See for your self. Only a bad dream.

Caine: Master, why do I have such a dream?

Master Po: All men have dreams, of different types -- good and bad. There are the vain dreams, futile, based on faceless hopes. There are the dreams that spur and inspire, based on aspirations to a high ideal. Then there are the false dreams, based on lies to onself or others.

Caine: Which is mine?

Master Po: The incense container was the catalyst of your dream; a fiction frozen to fact that summoned forth the demons of your dream.

Caine: My dream was false, then.

Master Po: False to you, therefore a nightmare. But to the artist, a good and true dream. For in that fabrication, he realized his inner ideal of the perfect dragon.

Master Po: Grasshopper. Where are you grasshopper?

Caine: Master, I am trapped in this world.

Master Po: You trapped yourself. You must fight.

Caine: There's no way out.

Master Po: You seek to escape. Instead, you must go in even deeper.

Caine: How?

Master Po: This demon is your own creation. Seek out when you first created him.

Caine (speaking to the demon, after realizing when they 'met'): So, that is where we met.

Demon: What does it matter? You are mine.

Caine: No.

Demon: You made a bargain.

Caine: But I know what you are. I created you.

Demon: And I shall destroy you.

Caine: I do not think so.

Voice of Master Po: What strange behavior is this, Grasshopper?

Demon: You made a bargain with me.

Caine: No bargain may be made with a child, delirious with fever.

Voice of trading post merchant, who sold drugs to woman: I told you; sometimes I trade goods for goods.

Caine: You trade in human fraility.

Voice of woman: I gave my child's life so that I might live.

Caine: You are not the cause of your child's death.

Demon: You are alive only because you asked me to take the life of a little girl.

Caine: The plea of a frightened boy cannot change the will of destiny.

Demon: I command you to die.

Caine: And I command you to be nothing.

The remaining Kung Fu quotes are from an episode titled The Salamander.

Caine: As a child I read of the salamander. A strange beast. He did not know what was to become of him. He was ugly....and some men threw him into the fire to die. But the flame did not destroy him. It tested him... and made him stronger.

Andy: Was he still...ugly?

Caine: I do not know how the salamander saw himself.

Andy: I can't tell what's real from what's in my mind.

Caine: You know there is a difference. That is more than many people understand.

Caine: Your mind is troubled because you do not know if what you see is real. That's true of me too. The sky is blue. I say it. You say it. But how can I know if what is in my mind is like what is in yours? What is real?

Andy: I know how it is with my mother. She has visions, and they're not real.

Caine: Her mind is not at peace with itself.

Andy: That's what I'm afraid of.

Caine: Why? Is it not a child's fear to make things of terror out of nothing but innocent darkness?

Master Kan: You did not fail.

Young Caine: I did not see what you sent me to see.

Master Kan: What you saw or did not see in the clearing is not important.

Young Caine: Then why did you send me?

Master Kan: When old master Son looked out into our valley and saw ugliness, he revealed something about himself to himself. He did not like what he revealed.

Young Caine: But I saw evil in the peacock; that it was the robber. Yet the peacock contained no evil at all.

Master Kan: You saw what your eyes told you.

Young Caine: But Master, what I saw was not real.

Master Kan: You made it so, as Master Son saw ugliness where nothing exists but a valley.

"My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it." ∼ Bertrand Russell

"Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution." ∼ Robert Zend