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

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

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
— Ernest Hemingway

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer."
— Woody Allen

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
— Woody Allen

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else."
— Woody Allen

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

"God has no religion."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere."
— George Bernard Shaw

"If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death
Perhaps the world can teach us
as when everything seems dead
but later proves to be alive"
— Pablo Neruda

"If you have an apple and I have an apple,
and we exchange apples,
We each have one apple.
If you have an idea and I have an idea,
and we exchange ideas,
We each have two ideas."
— George Bernard Shaw

"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."
— George Bernard Shaw

"در همین جهان است که دست کم می توانی امیدوار باشی که روزی کلک خودت را بکنی، امیدی که در آن جهان نمی تواند وجود داشته باشد."
— صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty."
— George Bernard Shaw

"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. "
— George Bernard Shaw

"Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages."
— George Bernard Shaw

"If the players were armed with guns, there wouldn’t be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds. "
— Irwin Shaw

"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."
— George Bernard Shaw

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

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle

"People who cannot understand when you are silent, can never understand when you speak."
— Mayank Saraf