"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aurelia Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
— Gabriel García Márquez

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

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

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

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

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

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

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

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
— Mark Twain

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happiness is a warm puppy."
— Charles M. Schulz

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
— Jane Austen

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
— Robert Frost

"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
— Mark Twain

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
— C.S. Lewis

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn."
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)

"Learning is a weightless treasure you can always carry easily."
— Chinese proverb

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. "
— Abigail Adams

"It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated. "
— Edith Hamilton

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books"
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
— William Shakespeare

"We know what we are, but not what we may be."
— William Shakespeare

"My library was dukedom large enough"
— William Shakespeare (The Tempest)

"I am a woman--when I think I must speak."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It: Applause First Folio Editions)

"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."
— William Shakespeare

"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."
— William Shakespeare

"I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths."
— John Keats

"Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise."
— William Shakespeare (King Lear)

"A thousand times the worse, to want thy light!
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books;
But love from love,toward school with heavy looks."
— William Shakespeare

"alls well that ends well"
— William Shakespeare

"Frame your mind to mirth and merriment
which bars a thousand harms
and lengthens life."
— William Shakespeare

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

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

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."
— Willa Cather

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
— Donna Roberts

"You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel."
— Alexander McCall Smith (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency)

"A faithful friend is a strong defense;
And he that hath found him hath found a treasure."
— Louisa May Alcott

""Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other is gold.""
— Dean Gold

"however rare true love maybe , it is less so than true friendship"
— Albert Einstein