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  • Charlotte Brontë
    "If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
    — Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)


  • Charlotte Brontë
    "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
    — Charlotte Brontë


  • Willa Cather
    "There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."
    — Willa Cather


  • Frances Hodgson Burnett
    "Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it."
    — Frances Hodgson Burnett (A Little Princess)


  • William Shakespeare
    "Cowards die many times before their deaths;
    The valiant never taste of death but once.
    Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
    It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
    Seeing that death, a necessary end,
    Will come when it will come."
    — William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)


  • William Shakespeare
    "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time;
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.

    Act 5, scene 5, 19–28 "
    — William Shakespeare (Macbeth)


  • William Shakespeare
    "Let me not to the marriage of true minds
    Admit impediments. Love is not love
    Which alters when it alteration finds,
    Or bends with the remover to remove.
    O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
    That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
    It is the star to every wand'ring barque,
    Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
    Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
    Within his bending sickle's compass come;
    Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
    But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
    If this be error and upon me proved,
    I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
    — William Shakespeare (Great Sonnets)


  • Stephenie Meyer
    "He is like a drug to you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun."
    The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me."
    He Sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse."
    — Stephenie Meyer


  • William Butler Yeats
    "Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity."
    — William Butler Yeats (The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats)


  • William Butler Yeats
    "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."
    — William Butler Yeats


  • William Blake
    "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
    — William Blake


  • William Blake
    "Man was made for joy and woe
    Then when this we rightly know
    Through the world we safely go.
    Joy and woe are woven fine
    A clothing for the soul to bind."
    — William Blake


  • "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
    — Bessie Anderson Stanley


  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    "Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson


  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    "Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson


  • Walt Whitman
    "This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."
    — Walt Whitman


  • "Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. "
    — Archimedes


  • Henry David Thoreau
    "Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
    — Henry David Thoreau (A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers)


  • Henry David Thoreau
    "We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."
    — Henry David Thoreau


  • Henry David Thoreau
    "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms."
    — Henry David Thoreau (Walden: Or, Life in the Woods)


  • Mark Twain
    "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


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


  • Mahatma Gandhi
    "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
    — Mahatma Gandhi


  • Mark Twain
    "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
    — Mark Twain


  • Martin Luther King Jr.
    "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
    — Martin Luther King Jr.


  • Jane Austen
    "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
    — Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)


  • Apple Computer Inc.
    "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
    — Apple Computer Inc.


  • William Shakespeare
    "We know what we are, but not what we may be."
    — William Shakespeare


  • Oscar Wilde
    "It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
    — Oscar Wilde


  • James Baldwin
    "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
    — James Baldwin


  • Jane Austen
    "It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language"
    — Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)


  • Ernest Hemingway
    "All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was."
    — Ernest Hemingway


  • Virginia Woolf
    "When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”"
    — Virginia Woolf


  • Anne Lamott
    "For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die."
    — Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)


  • Gordon B. Hinckley
    "It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the reading of 'good books' there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way."
    — Gordon B. Hinckley


  • Isak Dinesen
    "The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea"
    — Isak Dinesen


  • Isak Dinesen
    "If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?"
    — Isak Dinesen


  • Isak Dinesen
    "Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."
    — Isak Dinesen


  • Laura Ingalls Wilder
    "There's no great loss without some small gain."
    — Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie)


  • Charles W. Eliot
    "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
    — Charles W. Eliot


  • William Styron
    "A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."
    — William Styron


  • Oscar Wilde
    "Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
    — Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)


  • Abraham Lincoln
    "Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
    — Abraham Lincoln


  • Walt Disney Company
    "There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
    — Walt Disney Company


  • Marianne Williamson
    "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
    — Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)


  • Oscar Wilde
    "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
    — Oscar Wilde


  • Mother Teresa
    "Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
    — Mother Teresa


  • Margaret Mead
    "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
    — Margaret Mead


  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson


  • Martin Luther King Jr.
    "Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."
    — Martin Luther King Jr.



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