"No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot."
— Charles Dickens

"In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care?"
— Dave Eggers

"If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author."
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes)

"It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
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— Elizabeth Taylor

"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. "
— Alan Wilson Watts

"Emily: Do any human beings ever realise life while they live it?--every, every minute?

Stage Manager: No. The saints and poets, maybe--they do some."
— Thornton Wilder

"The noblest study of mankind is Man, says Man."
— James Thurber (Further Fables for Our Time)