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

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

"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

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

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

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

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

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
— Mark Twain

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
— Mark Twain

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."
— Mark Twain

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
— Mark Twain

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
— Mark Twain

"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
— Mark Twain

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

"Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams."
— Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books)

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
— George Orwell

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
— George Orwell (1984)

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

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
— George Orwell

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

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

"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals. No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid."
— George Orwell

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations."
— George Orwell

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear."
— Meg Cabot

"Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway."
— Meg Cabot (All-American Girl)

"It's truly weird how everyone just thinks they can bring me Diet Coke and everything will be okay. Especially since it's pretty much true.-Lizzie Nichols"
— Meg Cabot (Queen of Babble Gets Hitched)

""I've only been gone a week," I reminded him.
"Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight ours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.""
— Meg Cabot

"What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him.
More."
— Melina Marchetta (Jellicoe Road)

"Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is. "
— Melina Marchetta (On The Jellicoe Road)