• He who angers you controls you
• ""Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called."

— A. A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

• "I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."

— G.K. Chesterton

• "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. "

— Annie Dillard

• "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

— Henry David Thoreau

• "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'"
• "'Go back to bed', said the omniscient interior voice, because you don't need to know the final answer right now, at three o'clock in the morning on the Thursday in November. 'Go back to bed', because I love you. 'Go back to bed', beacause the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer."

— Elizabeth Gilbert

• "The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them."

— Sam Wineburg

• “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

• The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn."

— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)

• "'We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.

'Even longer,' Pooh answered."

• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

- Aristotle

• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

• "A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella."

— Elizabeth Gilbert

• "Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."

— Albert Einstein

• "Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right."

— Philip Pullman

• "I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights."

— Maya Angelou

• "Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

• "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms. "

— Henry David Thoreau

• "Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "What really knocks me out is a book, when you're all done reading it, you wished the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it."

— J.D. Salinger

• "In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."

— Terry Pratchett

• "Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator."

— Lemony Snicket

• "Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."

— George Bernard Shaw

• "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."

— Albert Einstein

• "In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."

— Mark Twain

• "If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

— Oscar Wilde

• "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

— Anaïs Nin

• "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."

— Terry Pratchett

• "You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."

— Madeleine L'Engle

• "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

— Oscar Wilde

• "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

— C.S. Lewis

• "Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to...

- Frodo to Sam" — J.R.R. Tolkien

“Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that.” - Harold Thurman Whitman