“Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.”  --Leoš Janáček

"There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”  --Mark Twain

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."  --Stephen Jay Gould

"When the rich, rob the poor, it’s called business. When the poor fight back it’s called violence."  --Anon

(misattributed to Mark Twain)

"A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness."  --Albert Einstein

"The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it."  --Chief Joseph

“Nothing worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.”  --Reinhold Niebuhr 

Colbert asks Keanu Reeves what happens when we die:

“I know that the ones who love us will miss us.”  --Keanu Reeves

"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."  --Keanu Reeves 

"Van Gogh defies every setback; he does the impossible; he does not give up.--  Anselm Kiefer

 "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."  --Franz Kafka

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."  --Ludwig van Beethoven

"To build up a library is to create a life. It’s never just a random collection of books."  --Carlos María Domínguez