"Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?"
— Albert Camus

"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."
— Albert Camus

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

"Lady Astor to Winston Churchill—
"Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."

His reply—
"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
— Winston S. Churchill

"A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.'"
— Winston S. Churchill

"We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm."
— Winston S. Churchill (Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches)

"Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains."
— Winston S. Churchill

"We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities."
— Winston S. Churchill

"There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result."
— Winston S. Churchill

"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet."
— Winston S. Churchill

"All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind."
— Winston S. Churchill

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

"The more I see, the less I know for sure."
— John Lennon

"“The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.”"
— Italo Calvino

"Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places."
— Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities)

"In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven't Read, which were frowning at you from the tables and shelves, trying to cow you. But you know you must never allow yourself to be awed, that among them there extend for acres and acres the Books You Needn't Read, the Books Made For Purposes Other Than Reading, Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong To The Category Of Books Read Before Being Written. And thus you pass the outer girdle of ramparts, but then you are attacked by the infantry of the Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered. With a rapid maneuver you bypass them and move into the phalanxes of the Books You Mean To Read But There Are Others You Must Read First, the Books Too Expensive Now And You'll Wait Till They're Remaindered, the Books ditto When They Come Out In Paperback, Books You Can Borrow From Somebody, Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too. Eluding these assaults, you come up beneath the towers of the fortress, where other troops are holding out:

the Books You've Been Planning Top Read For Ages,

the Books You've Been Hunting For Years Without Success,

the Books Dealing With Something You're Working On At The Moment,

the Books You Want To Own So They'll Be Handy Just In Case,

the Books You Could Put Aside Maybe To Read This Summer,

the Books You Need To Go With Other Books On Your Shelves,

the Books That Fill You With Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified,

Now you have been able to reduce the countless embattled troops to an array that is, to be sure, very large but still calculable in a finite number; but this relative relief is then undermined by the ambush of the Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time To Reread and the Books You've Always Pretended To Have Read And Now It's Time To Sit Down And Really Read Them."
— Italo Calvino

"Sit mens sana in corpore sano
(a healthy mind in a healthy body)"
— Decimus Junius Juvenalis

"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."
— Kahlil Gibrán

"“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.”"
— Gibran Khalil Gibran

"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?"
— Kahlil Gibrán (The Prophet)

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

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

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
— Albert Einstein

"And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and Shaw, even if you studied history or zoology or physics and hoped to spend your life pursuing some difficult and challenging career, you still had a mind full of all the soupy longings that every high-school girl was awash in... underneath it, all you longed to be was annihilated by love, to be swept off your feet, to be filled up by a giant prick spouting sperm, soapsuds, silk and satins and, of course, money."
— Erica Jong

"I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it."
— Erica Jong

"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
— Erica Jong

"Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
"
— erica De Jong

"If God dwells inside us like some people say, I sure hope he likes enchiladas, because that's what he's getting."
— Jack Handey

"In order to understand mankind, we must look at the word itself, "mank" and "ind".What do these words mean? Maybe we'll never know."
— Jack Handey

"If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is...and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them."
— Jack Handey

"[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking."
— Paul Bowles (The Sheltering Sky)

"Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another."
— Paul Bowles

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
— Ernest Hemingway

"I drink to make other people more interesting."
— Ernest Hemingway

"For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn."
— Ernest Hemingway

"What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land."
— Che Guevera

"Give me silence, water, hope
Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes"
— Pablo Neruda

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

"Siempre imaginé que el Paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca."
— Jorge Luis Borges

"One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him."
— Immanuel Kant

""Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a proceedure for moving through labyrinths." -Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose"
— Umberto Eco

"I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot say to her "I love you madly", because he knows that she knows (and that she knows he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still there is a solution. He can say "As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly". At this point, having avoided false innocence, having said clearly it is no longer possible to talk innocently, he will nevertheless say what he wanted to say to the woman: that he loves her in an age of lost innocence."
— Umberto Eco

"But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
— Umberto Eco

"If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong."
— Groucho Marx

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it."
— Karl Marx

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
— Karl Marx

"Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. "
— Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."
— Oscar Wilde

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde