"Shall we not go on in such great a cause?"
— Joseph Smith Jr.

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence."
— Samuel Johnson

"Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized."
— Thomas Hardy (Tess of the D'Urbervilles)

"Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don't come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come."
— Jeffrey R. Holland

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

"Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. "
— Samuel Johnson

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
— Carl Sagan

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff."
— Carl Sagan

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them."
— Joseph Smith Jr.

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. "
— Carl Sagan

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!"
— Dr. Seuss

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."
— Anna Quindlen (How Reading Changed My Life)

"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

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."
— George W. Bush

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

"The world was hers for the reading."
— Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
— Margaret Fuller

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
— Garrison Keillor

"(The Christian) does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
— C.S. Lewis

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
— Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)

"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
— Mother Teresa

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
— Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)

"The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity."
— Margaret Nadauld

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
— Robert Frost

"Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake."
— Jon Stewart

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."
— Carl Sandburg

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."
— C.S. Lewis

""Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her..."
— Willa Cather (My Antonia)

"We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is a perspective on human life and our culture that is well worth pondering."
— Carl Sagan

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

"Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort."
— Jane Austen

"I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other."
— Jane Austen (Emma)

"do you really think he likes me lizzi?"
"jane, he danced with you most of the night and stared at you the rest of it."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."
— Jane Austen (Persuasion)

"Perhaps it it our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!"
— Jane Austen (Emma)

"The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone."
— Jane Austen (Love and Friendship: And Other Early Works)

"What strange creatures brothers are!"
— Jane Austen

"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."
— Jane Austen

"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."
— Jane Austen

"Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how."
— Jane Austen

""...but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short." "
— Jane Austen

"When I fall in love, it will be forever."
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)