If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.

-- Mik Everett, The Iron Daughter

Ignorance is the master key of all evils.

-- Efrat Cybulkiewicz, My Cousin Rachel

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

-- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.

-- Gaynor Arnold, Girl in a Blue Dress

Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.

-- Jonathan Hennessey, The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation

Give me your soul and I will give you a unified humanity.

-- Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission

There is a greater grace for every great sin.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Lord of the Flies: Fitness for Writers

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

-- William James, To Kill a Mockingbird

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

-- Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

-- Will Self, Into the Wild

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

-- John Green, Looking for Alaska

Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.

-- Swami Vivekananda, Meditation and Its Methods According to Swami Vivekananda

No one has ever become poor by giving.

-- Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

-- Terry Eagleton, The Screwtape Letters

Whatever you are, be a good one.

-- Abraham Lincoln, Frostbite

Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.

-- Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

-- Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

All knowledge is born in the mind, and circumstances make them manifest.

-- Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.

-- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Love, that moves the sun and the other stars

-- Dante Alighieri, Paradiso