Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

-- Ezra Pound, Family Happiness

The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit.

-- Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.

-- Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

-- Marilyn Monroe, Message in a Bottle

When you start to promise yourself, that means you are living!

-- RScorp, Best Quotes of Werley Nortreus

Those who do not continuously seek knowledge are content to settle for mediocrity.

-- Keith Allan Moore, The Little Book of Big Reasons to Homeschool

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

-- Mahatma Gandhi, Chain Reaction

Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

-- Roy T. Bennett, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

-- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

lean in to kiss me in all the places where the ache is the most special.

-- Sanober Khan, The Moon in Its Flight

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

-- Raymond E. Feist, Daniel Deronda

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

-- Abraham Lincoln, Oliver Twist

May all that have life be delivered from suffering

-- Gautama Buddha, Getting On

Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality,

-- Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Disciples of Fortune

The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.

-- Anonymous, The Qur'an / القرآن الكريم

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson, Among Others

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

-- C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

-- Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

Every men wanted to be his friend and every woman wanted to be in his bed

-- Dee Remy, There Once Was A Boy

There is no better high than discovery.

-- Edward O. Wilson, The Anthologist