"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
— Wesley

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. "
— Terry Pratchett (Reaper Man)

"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)

"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"The thing I write will be the thing I write."
— Steve Shilstone

"A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle..."
— Vladimir Nabokov

" And then I laugh, because it's so ridiculous and so gorgeous and it's all I an do to not melt into a fit of giggles. So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?
It's like Charlie told the cop. For this old man, this IS home."
— Sara Gruen

"...the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, the foremost to defend."
— George Gordon Byron

"If you live life as a selfish person you will not succeed. If you live life as a funny person you will crack up.
If you live life as a generous person you achieve.
If you live life as a loving person you will defiantly succeed.
"
— Anna Pei

"In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged."
— Hans Nouwens

""He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world...when all other friends desert, he remains.""
— George G. Vest

"Two tears in a bucket . . . motherfuckit."
— unknows

"A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?"
— William Wordsworth

"If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that many good friends can pretend to do."
— Alexander Pope

""The best thing about his man is his dog.""
— French Proverb

"'my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.'"
— Anchee Min

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

""But never yet the dog our country fed,
Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.""
— Edward Lytton Bulwer

"If valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth, as Steven King once said, then Silicon Valley is the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all."
— Betty Dravis (The Toonies Invade Silicon Valley)

"There are no simple solutions only intelligent choices"
— John Deere ad from the early 80's