"One person of integrity can make a difference."
— Elie Wiesel

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
— Elie Wiesel

"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."
— Elie Wiesel

"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides."
— Elie Wiesel

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
— Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true."
— Paulo Coelho

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
— Paulo Coelho

"People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn."
— Paulo Coelho

"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path."
— Paulo Coelho

"You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun--and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist--that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists--a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles."
— Paulo Coelho (By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)

"If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to."
— Paulo Coelho (Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption)

"Love simply is."
— Paulo Coelho (The Witch of Portobello)

"It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary."
— Paulo Coelho

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
— Oscar Wilde

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

"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

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
— Gustave Flaubert

"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"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

"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."
— Joyce Carol Oates

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
— C.S. Lewis

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
— Logan Pearsall Smith

"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book."
— Jane Smiley (13 Ways of Looking at the Novel)

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
— Joseph Addison

"When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began."
— Rita Mae Brown

"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)

"When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young."
— Maya Angelou

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

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

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

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

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

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
— Mark Twain

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
— Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
— Toni Morrison

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
— Bertrand Russell

"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

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

"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should be treated with caution."
— J.K. Rowling

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"Ah, Harry, how often this happens even between friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important then anything the other person might have to contribute!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"We'll be there Harry," said Ron
"What?"
"At your Aunt's and Uncle's house," said Ron, "And then we'll go with you wherever you're going."
"No-" said Harry quickly; he hadn't counted on this, he had meant them to understand that he was undertaking the most dangerous journey alone.
"You said it once before," said Hermione quickly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we? We're with you whatever happens."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)