Never put yourself in a position to be made an example of.

-- Gary Hopkins, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

Of course, being brave does not mean running towards danger.

-- Janaki Sooriyarachchi, Finbo

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

-- Deepak Chopra, The Law of the Garbage Truck: How to Respond to People Who Dump on You, and How to Stop Dumping on O

Gently guide the tender vine else it become wild, tangled and impossible.

-- Kathryn Hall, Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

-- Jean de La Fontaine, Catch-22

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

-- Stephen Hawking, The Picture of Dorian Gray

We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

-- Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?" -Morrie

-- Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

Books should not be loved selfishly. Neither books nor anything else, in fact.

-- Marie-Sabine Roger, Das Labyrinth der Wörter

My life was dark, torture and empty before you found me. You brought the light, Red. I love you.

-- M.A. Stacie, Unwritten Rules

In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

-- Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

Create your own miracles; do what you think you cannot do.

-- Roy T. Bennett, The Secret Life of Bees

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

-- Steve Jobs, A Stroke of Midnight

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

-- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

-- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Choice or no, my heart is his.

-- Beth Revis, A Million Suns

Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.

-- Ahmed Mostafa, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

-- Michael Bassey Johnson, Incubus Dreams

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

-- Bob Marley, The Raven Boys