Hehe, I considered only quoting the final seciton, as it was what I really was touched by; but I thought it would make a little more sense with the extra content :D

btw: the quote is from the David Cohen book "One Year Off", in which he, his wife and two children take a year off from work and school to tour Planet Earth and her many nations....great read.

It takes so many years

To learn that one is dead.

- T. S. Elliot

In honor of the Disneyland merch thread:
"Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country, its prosperity and limitless bounty. They have shops the way that lesser countries have statues."
Simon Hoggart

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.
- Phillips Brooks

"April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain."

-- T.S. Eliot

"The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched."

-- Henry David Thoreau

"You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?"

-- Dr. Seuss

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

Ronald Reagan

"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt."
-Joseph Heller

And just because it's fitting considering where I'll be in a couple hours...

"We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist."
-Joseph Heller