"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care"
— John C. Maxwell

"There are books by which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."
— Charles Dickens

"I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. "
— Stephen King

"Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around."
— Stephen King

"There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book."
— Stephen King

"One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"I'd far rather be happy than right any day "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"Scientists at first were skeptical that a kitten-type being could exist in the rare Martian atmosphere. As a test, two Earth kittens were put in a chamber that simulated the Martian air. The diary of this experiment is fascinating:

6:00 A.M.: Kittens appear to sleep.
7:02 A.M.: Kitten wakes, darts from one end of cage to another for no apparent reason.

7:14 A.M.: Kitten runs up wall of cage, leaps onto other kitten for no apparent reason.

7:22 A.M.: Kitten lies on back and punches other kitten for no apparent reason.

7:30 A.M.: Kitten leaps, stops, darts left, abruptly stops, climbs wall, clings for two seconds, falls on head, darts right for no apparent reason.

7:51 A.M.: Kitten parses first sentence of daily newspaper that is at bottom of chamber.

With the exception of the parsing, all behavior is typical of Earth kitten behavior. The parsing activity, which was done with a small ball-point pen, was an anomaly."
— Steve Martin (Pure Drivel)

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

"Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves."
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

"Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either."
— Meg Cabot

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
— James Thurber

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

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

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

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

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

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
— Mark Twain

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."
— Mark Twain

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
— Mark Twain

"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
— Mark Twain

"I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."
— Mark Twain

"To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
— Mark Twain

"The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop."
— Mark Twain

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

"If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves."
— 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

"Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up."
— Thomas A. Edison