Some quotes that I like:

“All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.” Franz Kafka

"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's." Mark Twain (Letter to W.D. Howells, 2 April 1899)

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil . . . or jealousy . . . or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring . . . it was peace." Milan Kundera

"Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven." Alphonse de Lamartine

"Not all those who wander are lost." J. R. R. Tolkien

"As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter." Max Planck (German theoretical physicist, originator of quantam theory and winner of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics)

"The stream of human knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality. The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter. We are beginning to suspect that we ought rather to hail it as the creator and governor of this realm." Sir James Jeans, The Mysterious Universe

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Sir Winston Churchill

"The cities were deep-laid with granaries of silence, time stored and kept, pools and fountains of quietude and memory. A crystal tower dropped into soft dusting rain. In shattering flights, stone animals with vast granite wings dived to strike the courtyards and fountains. Mars was dead." Ray Bradbury, "The Martian Chronicles" 1950