"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
— George Orwell (Animal Farm)

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

"It takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to stand up to our friends."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"As strong as we are united. As weak as we are divided."
— J.K. Rowling

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
— J.K. Rowling

"Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
— George Orwell (Animal Farm)

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

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

"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
— Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
— Robert Frost

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

"The moral of Snow White is never eat apples."
— Lemony Snicket

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
— Paulo Coelho

"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist - Gift Edition)

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true."
— Paulo Coelho

"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."
— Paulo Coelho

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate."
— Paulo Coelho

"That’s what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand."
— Paulo Coelho

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

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

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
— Mark Twain

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
— Mark Twain

"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."
— Mark Twain

"All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.
(Snoopy, at his typewriter)"
— Charles M. Schulz

"[Winston writes in his forbidden diary]
Winston Smith: April the 4th, 1984. To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man... greetings."
— George Orwell

"Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4."
— 1984

"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength."
— George Orwell (1984)

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."
— George Orwell (1984)

"Beautiful thing, the destruction of words. "
— George Orwell

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
— George Orwell (1984)

"Big Brother is Watching You."
— George Orwell (1984)

"Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one."
— George Orwell (1984)

"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
— George Orwell (1984)

"Sanity is not statistical."
— George Orwell

"Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me."
— George Orwell (1984)

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
— George Orwell