Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.

-- Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

-- Rashi, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

You gotta be cruel to be kind.

-- William Shakespeare, The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 2

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

-- Jo Walton, Among Others

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

-- George Savile Halifax, You Can

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

-- Marcel Proust, Rayuela

There is no great companion like a book.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Money is created from time

-- Sunday Adelaja, The Usurper: And Other Stories

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

-- Bob Dylan, Anne of Green Gables

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

-- Stephen King, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

-- Stephen King, Night Shift

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

-- Orson Scott Card, Sarah

In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay...

-- Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

-- Ludwig Börne, The Broken God

You're either living on purpose or living accidentally, so live ON purpose WITH purpose!

-- Ken Donaldson, Marry YourSelf First! Companion Workbook

Let's pretend you are capable of being who I think I need you to be: a love story.

-- Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.

-- David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

-- Eric Burns, The Joy of Books

You're only as good as your next thought of yourself.

-- Curtis Tyrone Jones, The World of the Sufi: An Anthology of Writings about Sufis and Their Work

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

-- Julia Child, The Catcher in the Rye