"Give peace a chance."
— John Lennon

"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."
— Rachel Carson

"In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth."
— Rachel Carson

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

"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

"Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying."
— Yoko Ono

"I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."
— H.P. Lovecraft

"'there is no bad whiskey, there are only some whiskies that aren't as good as others'"
— Raymond Chandler

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? "
— Jean Cocteau

"So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall."
— Roald Dahl

"Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live."
— Natalie Babbitt (Tuck Everlasting)

"This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."
— Walt Whitman

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
— Philip K. Dick

"Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don't, people with guns come and force us to pay. That's violent."
— Derrick Jensen (Endgame: Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization)

"'That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.'"
— L. Frank Baum (The Land of Oz)

"But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness."
— Isaac Asimov (I, Asimov: A Memoir)

"...some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
— Dalai Lama XIV

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

""Time heals nothing, it merely rearranges our memory.""
— Gary Numan

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
— Lewis Carroll

"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!"
— John Waters

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

"You always have God's undivided attention."
— Charles F. Stanley