My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves. Demian

In no social institution is the codified ritual of behavior more rigid than in funerals. Imagine the indignation if the minister altered his sermon or experimented with facial expression. Consider the shock if, at the funeral parlors, any chairs were used but those little folding yellow torture chairs with the hard seats. No, dying, a man may be loved, hated, mourned, missed; but once dead he becomes the chief ornament of a complicated and formal social celebration. Tortilla Flat

The sergeant's widow told you a lie when she said I flogged her. I never flogged her. She flogged herself. The Inspector General

“Albert Einstein observed, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People