"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

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

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

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
— Rudyard Kipling

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
— Abraham Lincoln

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
— Aldous Huxley

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
— Oscar Wilde

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
— Oscar Wilde

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
— Oscar Wilde