"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
— Oscar Wilde

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
— Sylvia Plath

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
— Emily Dickinson

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."
— Anaïs Nin

"To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from Underground)

"Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense."
— Emily Dickinson

"Bring me the sunset in a cup."
— Emily Dickinson

"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from Underground: with White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead)

"What is hell? I still maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)

"Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky