"Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly."
— Langston Hughes

"Imagination is intelligence with an erection"
— Victor Hugo

"Intelligence with out ambition is a bird without wings. "
— Salvador Dalí

"Sometimes, the words we speak are not the words we want to say.
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— Anthony West

"To say goodbye is to die a little."
— Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye)

"Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none"
— Lois Lowry (Gathering Blue)

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
— Les Brown

"Nobody loves me, nobody cares,
Nobody picks me peaches and pears.
Nobody offers me candy and Cokes,
Nobody listens and laughs at me jokes.
Nobody helps when I get into a fight,
Nobody does all my homework at night.
Nobody misses me,
Nobody cries,
Nobody thinks I'm a wonderful guy.
So, if you ask me who's my best friend, in a whiz,
I'll stand up and tell you NOBODY is!
But yesterday night I got quite a scare
I woke up and Nobody just WASN'T there!
I called out and reached for Nobody's hand,
In the darkness where Nobody usually stands,
Then I poked through the house, in each cranny and nook,
But I found SOMEBODY each place that I looked.
I seached till I'm tired, and now with the dawn,
There's no doubt about it-
NOBODY'S GONE!!"
— Shel Silverstein

"You can only hold a smile for so long before it becomes just teeth."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)