"Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly." – Andre Gide

"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man." – Chang-tzu

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." – Richard Bach

"Within the armor is the butterfly and within the butterfly is the signal from another star." – Philip K. Dick