"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
— Agatha Christie

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
— Abraham Lincoln

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

"One should absorb the color of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."
— Oscar Wilde

"That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."
— Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake)

"I can resist anything, except temptation."
— Oscar Wilde

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)