"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Laozi

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
— Ayn Rand

"The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
— Henry Ward Beecher

"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
— Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Always do what you are afraid to do."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."
— Helen Keller

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
— Mae West

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
— Dalai Lama XIV

"A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty."
— Andrew Wolfe

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music."
— George Carlin

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

"Sometimes you know before you know."
— Elizabeth Berg (Range of Motion)

"You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart."
— Elizabeth Berg

"She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)! "
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

"I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

"I, too, have felt that the war goes on and on. When my son, Ian, died at El Alamein-- side by side with... visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said, "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on; Ian is dead now and will be dead tomorrow and nexe year and forever. There's no end to that. But perhaps there will be an end to the sorrow of it. "
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

"Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

"Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

"Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

"That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)