- "When the going gets tough / Tough - get going." - Randy Newman, "Memo to my Son"
- "no, you were the reason / I kept my light on late into the night / turning all those pages / searching for you everywhere.” - Billy Collins
- "It takes two to lie. One to lie, and one to listen." - Homer Simpson
- “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - St Augustine
- "Not all who wander are lost." - JRR Tolkien
- "Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman
- “Don’t date a girl who reads because girls who read are the storytellers. You with the Joyce, you with the Nabokov, you with the Woolf. You there in the library, on the platform of the metro, you in the corner of the café, you in the window of your room. You, who make my life so god damned difficult. The girl who reads has spun out the account of her life and it is bursting with meaning. She insists that her narratives are rich, her supporting cast colorful, and her typeface bold. You, the girl who reads, make me want to be everything that I am not. But I am weak and I will fail you, because you have dreamed, properly, of someone who is better than I am. You will not accept the life that I told of at the beginning of this piece. You will accept nothing less than passion, and perfection, and a life worthy of being storied. So out with you, girl who reads. Take the next southbound train and take your Hemingway with you. I hate you. I really, really, really hate you.” - Charles Warnke
- Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled. - George Santayama
- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. - F Scott Fitzgerald
- “Goodbye,” said the fox. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - de Saint-Exupery
- a dream you dream alone is only a dream; a dream you dream together is reality. - Yoko Ono
- When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. - Victor Frankl
- You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. - C.S. Lewis
- Be the change you want to see in the world. - Gandhi
- Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss
- Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. - Dr. Seuss
- "Are your convictions so fragile they cannot stand in opposition to mine?" - Marquis de Sade, Quills (movie)
- "See, you don't get have it both ways. You don't get to have Christmas be a secular holiday, universal to the culture, recognized by government agencies and celebrated by people of all faiths and of no faith at all... and still have it be a religious holiday of the Christian faith. Not if you respect people's basic right to worship, or not, in their own way. Pick one. If Christmas is a universal secular holiday, quit whining about it being secularized. If it's a distinct religious holiday, quit trying to ram it down everyone else's throats."
- "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." --Isaac Asimov
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