"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
— Groucho Marx

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."
— Groucho Marx

"The road must be trod,
but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far
upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the
strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world:
Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are
elsewhere."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words."
— Francis Of Assisi

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

"This is a very grave matter, punishable by...well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine."
— Susanna Clarke

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

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it."
— Henry Ford

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men afraid of the light"
— Plato

"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
— G.K. Chesterton

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

"Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh and truth-bearing light. "
— Leonard S. Marcus (The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy)