If you wish to possess your soul, be patient.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Dancing with the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.

-- Markus Herz, The Garden of Eden

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

-- Sharon Shinn, Jenna Starborn

I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

-- Bette Midler, Keeping the Moon

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

-- C.S. Lewis, The Education of Henry Adams

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

-- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

What you want most you push away from you. You want more than you care to admit.

-- Tarjei Vesaas, The Bridges

Two birds went for dating. The male bird was killed and the female bird is being murdered.

-- Santosh Kalwar, High Fidelity

When you argue with reality, reality always wins

-- Adyashanti, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

Be innovative.

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

Without a vivid picture of what you want, how can you reach it?

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

Daily reading is vital for own self development.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

-- Aldous Huxley, A Happy Death

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

-- Joseph Brodsky, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

-- Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

-- Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

-- Oprah Winfrey, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.

-- Stephenie Meyer, New Moon