"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."
— Albert Einstein

""In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.""
— André Maurois

"If you don't have time to do it right the 1st time then you must have time to do it over"
— Jocelyn Dixon

"My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice."
— Ursula K. Le Guin (Searoad)

"Only the fool tests the water with both feet."
— African proverb

"On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock."
— Thomas Jefferson

"The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark, mysterious, impenetrable."
— Rabindranath Tagore

"The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool."
— Cameron Crowe

"A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity."
— Germaine Greer

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain

"An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men"
— Vincent Van Gogh

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

"I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it."
— Ann Patchett

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

"If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences."
— Christine de Pizan (The City of Ladies)

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

"THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

1. We are here to help you.
2. You will have time to get to your class before the bell rings.
3. The dress code will be enforced.
4. No smoking is allowed on school grounds.
5. Our football team will win the championship this year.
6. We expect more of you here.
7. Guidance counselors are always available to listen.
8. Your schedule was created with you in mind.
9. Your locker combination is private.
10. These will be the years you look back on fondly.

TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

1. You will use algebra in your adult lives.
2. Driving to school is a privilege that can be taken away.
3. Students must stay on campus during lunch.
4. The new text books will arrive any day now.
5. Colleges care more about you than your SAT scores.
6. We are enforcing the dress code.
7. We will figure out how to turn off the heat soon.
8. Our bus drivers are highly trained professionals.
9. There is nothing wrong with summer school.
10. We want to hear what you have to say."
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

"Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"7 DEADLY SINS

Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightening that does the work."
— Mark Twain

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
— Oscar Wilde

"Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?"
— G.K. Chesterton (The Man Who Was Thursday, Large-Print Edition)

"When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning."
— Neil Gaiman (Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions)

"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think."
— Clarence Darrow

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
— Anaïs Nin

"The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything."
— Clarence Darrow

"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness."
— Lemony Snicket

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden, or Life in the Woods)

"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
— Oscar Wilde

"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."
— Eric Hoffer

"You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up."
— Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides)

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
— Eric Hoffer

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."
— Eric Hoffer

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
— Albert Einstein

"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."
— Isaac Asimov

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
— Bertrand Russell

"An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate."
— François-René de Chateaubriand

"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
— Neil Gaiman

"The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say."
— Anaïs Nin

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

"In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.
"
— Al Gore

"Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid."
— John Wayne

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. "
— Leo Tolstoy

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
— Mark Twain

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
— Albert Camus

"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do."
— Walter Bagehot

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."
— Janis Joplin