- R. A. Salvatore - It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.
- Wilkie Collins - The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
- Osip Mandelstam - My turn shall also come: / I sense the spreading of a wing.
- Anchee Min - If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.
- Carl Sandburg - Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
- Alan Wilson Watts - Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
- Baltasar Gracián - Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
- Khalil Gibran - You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
- Umberto Eco - Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...
- J.R.R. Tolkien - All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
- Mortimer Jerome Adler - True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
- Isaac Newton - If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
- Henry Miller - A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.
- Charles de Lint - Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
- Francis Bacon - If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
- Betty Smith - Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
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