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

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

"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

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
— Mother Teresa

"If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

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

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

"I am not young enough to know everything."
— Oscar Wilde

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
— Oscar Wilde

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

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

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

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
— Victor Borge

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

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

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

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections)

"Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You)

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
— Stephen King

"Go then, there are other worlds than these."
— Stephen King (The Gunslinger)

"When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story."
— Stephen King

"Do it for joy and you can do it forever"
— Stephen King

"Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!"
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

"You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know."
— John Irving (The Hotel New Hampshire)

"“Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.”"
— John Irving (The Hotel New Hampshire)

"It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious."
— John Irving (The Hotel New Hampshire)

"sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!"
— Sophie Kinsella (The Undomestic Goddess)

"Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's own books - it does not matter whose or where. Simply to be among books, glancing at one here, reading a page from one over there, enjoying them all as objects to be touched, looked at, even smelt, is a deep satisfaction. And often, very often, while browsing haphazardly, looking for nothing in particular, you pick up a volume that suddenly excites you, and you know that this one of all the others you must read. Those are great moments - and the books we come across like that are often the most memorable."
— Aidan Chambers

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

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