"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
— Jane Austen

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. "
— Emily Dickinson

"A little nonsense now and then,
Is cherished by the wisest men."
— John August

"If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated: A Novel)