Joseph Campbell (The Hero with a Thousand Faces)

"Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have one before us, the labyrinth is fully known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world."

When things are different from what we think...

Jack:Look, I'm just trying to be honest here, OK? I'm the wrong guy.

Sara:A wise human once said,"You are what you think you are."

Jack:Why don't you find that guy and ask him?

Seth:It was the Buddha. He's unavailable.

From Race to witch mountain.

Forgiveness is...

Any weak man can say sorry. It takes a strong heart to forgive.

From Beyond Good and Evil

"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee."

From Beyond Good and Evil- Friedrich Nietzche

From Audacity of Hope

At the end of our conversation he shook my hand.

"I still think you're wrong," he said, "but at least it seems like you've thought about it. Hell, you'd probably disappoint me if you agreed with me all the time."

Who are the ones to be watched out?

Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.

Jack Sparrow

From: Pirates of the Carribean: The Curs of the Black Pearl.

The one that is bleating?

"You need to understand something," she said.

"When the big old wolf sank his teeth in the lam, it's the lamb that does all the bleating."


From: A Thief in the House of Memory by Tim Wynne-Jones