"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

"I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world."
— Walt Whitman

"I am not young enough to know everything."
— Oscar Wilde

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."
— Walt Whitman

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
— Mark Twain (The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It)

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"...that's what a book should do. It should tie you up, it should work you up, make you think, make you see, make you feel extra happy and sorrowful, extra nervous and bold. It must be dream laden, scheme sodden, soul shaking. And it must do all of this as mysteriously as a left-handed curveball coming at your head, twisting and spinning and making you duck until, at the very end, it magically crossed home plate, with such grace and command that it humbles, crumbles, and amazes you."
— John H. Ritter

"Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion!"
— Truvy from "Steel Magnolias"

"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."
— Emilie Buchwald

"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."
— Barack Obama

"Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change."
— Barack Obama

"One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world."
— Barack Obama

"I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody;
I read because the words that build the story become mine, to build my life;
I read not for happy endings but for new beginnings; I'm just beginning myself, and I wouldn't mind a map;
I read because I have friends who don't, and young though they are, they're beginning to run out of material;
I read because every journey begins at the library, and it's time for me to start packing;
I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready."
— Richard Peck (Anonymously Yours)

"'Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma, who was no oil painting herself."
— Richard Peck from A Long Way from Chicago

"The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid."
— Joan Bauer

"When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian."
— Joan Bauer

"We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for strength to help us when we feel broken, discouraged or afraid. We read to find hope. We read because we're not just made up of skin and bones, and a deep need for chocolate, but we're also made up of words, words which describe our thoughts and what's hidden in our hearts."
— Joan Bauer

"I've never said this to a girl before."
I bit my lip, waiting.
"Well..." He looked down. "I'm not sure how to say this." He took a deep breath and announced, "I really like fighting evil with you."
— Joan Bauer (Peeled)

"Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins."
— Steve Kluger My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love Mary Poppins and Fenway Park

"Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"Is this a kissing book?"
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"Sir Bedevere: What makes you think she's a witch?
Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt!
Sir Bedevere: A newt?
Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better.
Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway! "
— Monty Python and the Holy Grail

"King Arthur: Run away! "
— Monty Python and the Holy Grail

"King Arthur: [after Arthur's cut off both of the Black Knight's arms] Look, you stupid Bastard. You've got no arms left.
Black Knight: Yes I have.
King Arthur: *Look*!
Black Knight: It's just a flesh wound. "
— Monty Python and the Holy Grail

"Dennis: You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

King Arthur: Shut up!

Dennis: I mean, if I went around saying I was an Emperor because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
"
— Monty Python and the Holy Grail