"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation."
— H.H. Munro

"I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties."
— Ron Paul

"I want a bump of that cloud."
— Mogaza

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
— Marcel Proust

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
— Marcel Proust

"Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms."
— Ron Paul

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

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

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

"Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
-I John 4:7-8"
— Anonymous (Holy Bible: New Testament: The King James Version)

"What I thought was an end
turned out to be a middle.
What I thought was a brick wall
turned out to be a tunnel.
What I thought was an injustice
turned out to be a color of the sky."
— Tony Hoagland

""The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."
"
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Once the mind has been stretched by a new idea, it will never again return to its original size."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"“And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought.”"
— St. Augustine, "Confessions"

"Neither exhortations to virtue nor the argument of approaching death should divert us from literature; for in a good mind it excites the love of virtue, and dissipates, or at least diminishes, the fear of death."
— Petrarch, in a letter to Boccaccio

"Throw aside all hindrances and give up your time to attaining a sound mind"
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"What is sweeter than lettered ease?"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is."
— Voltaire

"Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have."
— David Crockett

"If we're all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down"
— James St. James (Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland)

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
— Oscar Wilde

"If you take someone as they are, you make them worse. If you treat them as if they were what they ought to be, you help them become what they are capable of becoming."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk."
— Charles Baudelaire

"I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time."
— Neil Gaiman

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"Non Scholae Sed Vitae"
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"I am a child of the universe, I am
safe."
— Peter Ragnar

"Forgiveness is not about condoning the past, its about not allowing the past to dictate the future"
— Houston Smith

"...the only true "government" that can possibly exist is the earth and its resources."
— from The Zeitgeist Movement (www.thezeitgeistmovement.com)

"Never judge a book by its movie."
— J.W. Eagan

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

"Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence."
— George Orwell

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."
— Brendan Gill

"style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn"
— Gore Vidal

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

"Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help."
— Thom Gunn

"I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
— David Carr

"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people."
— Isaac Newton

"The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how my own passing years have cast a new light on it."
— Michael Upchurch

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

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

"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

"I decline to accept the end of man... I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."
— William Faulkner