„We lived like that “Happy Family“ you sometimes see in traveling zoos: a lion caged with a lamb. It is a startling exhibit but the lamb has to be replaced frequently.“

— Robert A. Heinlein

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„Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.“
— Gertrude Stein
„Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.“
— Stephen King
„Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh
„Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near“
— Paulo Coelho