"Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face."
— Jim Butcher (Storm Front)

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

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

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

"Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (A Civil Campaign)

"When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. "
— Jim Butcher

"Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar"
— Jim Butcher (Dead Beat)

"Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now. "
— Jim Butcher

"Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!"
— Jim Butcher

"The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place."
— Jim Butcher (Turn Coat)

"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (A Civil Campaign)

"When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference."
— Lois McMaster Bujold

"A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind."
— Lois McMaster Bujold

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

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"
— Dr. Seuss

"Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!"
— Jan Karon (A New Song)

"Lord, make me a blessing to someone today"
— Jan Karon (At Home in Mitford)

"Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
— Douglas Adams

"The problem with designing something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of a complete fool. "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"A learning experience is one of those things that says, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.""
— Douglas Adams (The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time)

"It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin."
— Alexander McCall Smith

"She had a taste for sugar, however, and this meant that a doughnut or a cake might follow the sandwich. She was a traditionally built lady, after all, and she did not have to worry about dress size, unlike those poor, neurotic people who were always looking in mirrors and thinking that they were too big. What was too big, anyway? Who was to tell another person what size they should be? It was a form of dictatorship, by the thin, and she was not having any of it. If these thin people became any more insistent, then the more generously sized people would just have to sit on them. Yes, that would teach them! Hah!"
— Alexander McCall Smith

"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
— Neil Gaiman

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
— Oscar Wilde