"I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
— E.L. Doctorow

"All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"Knowledge is power, but how you use that power defines whether you're good, or evil."
— Daniel Jackson

"You're a mouse."
— C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian)

"Everyone wants happiness,
No one wants pain,
But you can't have a rainbow,
Without a little rain<3"
— Zion Lee<3

"Pritkin gave me a little shake and I eyed him without favor. The only other occasions when I had been dragged back in time, the trip had been triggered by proximity to a person whose past was being threatened.
“I have to tell you,” I said frankly, “if someone is trying to mess with your conception or something, I’m not feeling a pressing need to intervene.”"
— Karen Chance (Claimed By Shadow)

"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
— Albert Einstein

"I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness. Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light. The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space. "
— Guy de Maupassant

"What social psychology has given to an understanding of human nature is the disceovery that forces larger than ourselves determine our mental life and our actions - chief among these forces [is] the power of the social situation"
— Mahrzarin Banaji

"God kills indiscrinatly (i think i spelled that wrong) and so shall we."
— Anne Rice

"Knowledge is power, but how you use that power defines whether you're good, or evil."
— Daniel Jackson

"Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements."
— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

"The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London"
— John Masefield

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
— Oscar Wilde

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
...live in the question.

"
— Rainer Maria Rilke in Letters to a Young Poet

"I'd like to widen people's awareness of the tremendous timespan lying ahead--for our planet, and for life itself. Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4bn years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, 6bn years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae."
— Martin J. Rees

"never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word

Paraphrased"
— Thomas Jefferson

"What falls away is always. And is near."
— Theodore Roethke

"A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl."
— Herman J. Mankiewicz

"Remember, women are not to be the caboose, and they are not the engine. They are much, much more than either of these."
— Patricia T. Holland (A Quiet Heart)

"If you're great, you can stay that way and people will believe in you, swear by you, turn the world upside down for you. But, if you're only partly great, or just a nobody, then what happens to you is lost. (Read by Henry Miller)"
— Henry Miller

"Good decisions are based on good information."
— Catherine Badger

"I'm just a man, no more enlightened than any other."
— George P. Pelecanos (The Night Gardener)

"Mr. Pappadakis smells like Just for Men peroxide dye and eucalyptus foot unguents. He has a face like a catcher's mitt. The whole thing puckers inward, drooping with the memory of some dropped fly ball."
— Karen Russell

"This quote was written by the Forth Teacher "Samuel"

"You are responsible for everything that you give out to others in your Earth Life that is Negative. If personal responsibility were taught at a Young Age maybe Souls would think twice before they act. The Greatest Reward you can ever receive is when you have cleared your slate for Good."
"
— Samuel

"The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!
The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand
and asshole holy!
Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is
holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an
angel! "
— Allen Ginsberg