"We cannot build the future by avenging the past."
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then––to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)

"If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?"
— T.H. White (The Candle in the Wind)

"And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me."
— Clarice Lispector (The Passion According to G.H.)

"What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human."
— Clarice Lispector (The Passion According to G.H.)

"If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice."
— Dalton Trumbo

"Somewhere it is being prepared.
Somewhere deep in the heart of Germany the shell is being made. Some German girl is polishing it right now polishing it and cleaning it and fitting the charge into it. It glistens in the factory light and it has a number and the number is mine. I have a date with the shell. We shall meet soon. . . .

It will come with a rush and a roar and a shudder. It will come howling and laughing and shrieking and moaning. It will come so fast you can’t help yourself you will stretch out your arms to embrace it. You will feel it before it comes and you will tense yourself for acceptance and the earth which is your eternal bed will tremble at the moment of your union."
— Dalton Trumbo

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

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

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
— Thomas A. Edison

"There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t."
— Thomas A. Edison

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. "
— Thomas A. Edison

"Vision without execution is hallucination."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving
up. The most certain way to succeed
is to TRY just one more time."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
— Thomas A. Edison

"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
— Charles M. Schulz

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

"He is like a drug to you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun."
The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me."
He Sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse."
— Stephenie Meyer

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

"To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I"."
— Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

"Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing."
— Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

"For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

- Dagny Taggart."
— Ayn Rand

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

"The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them."
— Maya Angelou

"And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make."
— Paul McCartney

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
— G.K. Chesterton (Alarms and Discursions)

"Humor is reason gone mad."
— Groucho Marx

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories)

"My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. "
— Plato

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
— Albert Einstein

"I already know how strong you are. You didn't have to break the furniture."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
— Terry Pratchett

"...but better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature"
— Dave Barry

"Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do any harm to the world."
— Voltaire

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
— Oscar Wilde

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."
— Maya Angelou

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
— Albert Camus

"Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched. How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. In some airless apartment on a dark, urine stained, whore lined street, someone is calling out to you silently and you are answering without even being there. So crystalline. So pure. Such life saving power when you smile. You will never know how you have cauterized my wounds. So sad that we will never touch. How it hurts me to know that I will never be able to give you everything I have"
— Henry Rollins

"You forgave me in a dream the other night. The more you told me it was alright, the worse I felt. I know that you were only doing it because you knew I couldnt possibly hurt you more than I already had. I could see what forgiving me was doing to you. I know that you think I'm to stupid to figure it all out. When you forgave me, you knew that it was finally over. The pain would leave me, I would forget you and you would never see me again except in a dream. It is sad that the things that we saw in each other are no longer there. It is a shame that we tore each other apart looking for things that we needed desperately but could never find. It is tragic that we only wanted to give each other but only stole from ourselves and blamed each other for the emptiness in our lives. I see you differently now. I no longer fear you. It took years to see you for what you really are."
— Henry Rollins

"Indiana: They wanted them to look like the Gods.
Henry: God doesn't look like this."
— James Rollins (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)