"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
— Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey)

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle

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

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
— Mae West

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)