"And then there are the times when the wolves are silent and the moon is howling."
— George Carlin

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
— Jane Austen

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
— Maya Angelou

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
— Albert Camus (The Fall)

"Attraction is not an option. "
— Neil Strauss

"There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out."
— Mae West

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
— Mae West

"When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. "
— Mae West

"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful! "
— Mae West

"I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure."
— Mae West

"Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided."
— Mae West

"Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile."
— Mae West

"Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you."
— Mae West

"You are never too old to become younger!"
— Mae West

"Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won't have to chase your dreams, they will come to you."
— Randy Pausch

"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls."
— Khaled Hosseini (A Thousand Splendid Suns)

"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good."
— W.H. Auden (Selected Poems)

"If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating."
— Sylvia Plath (Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement)

"“But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.”"
— Arthur Rimbaud

"Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"In the course of a lifetime, waht does it matter?"
— Sharon Creech from "Walk Two Moons"

"Calligraphy of geese
against the sky-
the moon seals it."
— Buson Yosa

"love is thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail

it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea

love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the least begin
less littler than forgive

it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky"
— e.e. cummings

"Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past
I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast"
— Bob Dylan

"Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me, do not grow,
Oh time, without me, do not go.

...Oh, you cannot go, without me."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi (Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi)

"May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and the road downhill all the way to your door"
— Celtic salutation

"the moon's too bright
the chain's too tight
the beast won't go to sleep.
I've been thinking of those promises I made
to you that I could not keep.
I know a man never got a woman back
by beggin on his knees,
or I'd crawl to you baby
and I'd fall at your feet
I'd howl at your beauty like a dog in heat
I'd tear at your heart
I'd claw at your sheets
And I'd say please.
Please.
I'm your man."
— L. Cohen

"If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between."
— Jonathan Carroll (Bones of the Moon)

"All the light of the day, fleeing the earth, seemed for one brief moment to take refuge in the sky; pink clouds spiralled round the full moon that was as green as pistachio sorbet and as clear as glass; it was reflected in the lake."
— Irène Némirovsky (Suite Française)

"When you come upon a path
that brings benefit
and happiness to all,
follow this course
as the moon
journeys through the stars."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore."
— Pearl Cleage (What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day)

"A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. "
— Marion C. Garretty

"Time is very slow for those who wait
Very fast for those who are scared
very long for those who lament
Very short for those who celebrate
But for those who love time is eternal"
— William Shakespeare

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. "
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."
— Anaïs Nin

""Adieu," he said, "this is goodbye. I'll never forget you, never."
She stood silent. He looked at her and saw her eyes full of tears. He turned away.
At this moment she wasn't ashamed of loving him, because her physical desire had gone and all she felt towards him now was pity and a profound, almost maternal tenderness. She forced herself to smile. "Like the Chinese mother who sent her son off to war telling him to be careful 'because war has its dangers,' I'm asking you, if you have any feelings for me, to be as careful as possible with your life."
"Because it is precious to you?" he asked nervously.
"Yes. Because it is precious to me.""
— Irène Némirovsky (Suite Française)

"Waiting is erotic"
— Irène Némirovsky (Suite Française)

"When one is pretending, the entire body revolts."
— Anaïs Nin