"Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again."
— Hermann Hesse

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

"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

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

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Jim Henson

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

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

"I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it.After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it."
— Louis Sachar (Holes)

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