Self-education is the greatest self-liberation.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charl

The best thing about photography: it changes your point of view.

-- Nina Hrusa, The Usurper: And Other Stories

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

-- Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

I hope you are smiling and happy and I am not gay.

-- Sumrit Shahi, Just Friends

To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.

-- Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

Kitten, your hands are heaven and your eyes are my home.

-- Jeaniene Frost, This Side of the Grave

My love is meatloaf flavored. I just wish my meatloaf was also meatloaf flavored.

-- Dora J. Arod, Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

-- Sarah Williams, Les Misérables

Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles

-- Tahereh Mafi, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

-- Tom Robbins, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

-- Herman Melville, Delirium

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

-- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

If you live as if you know nothing you offer yourself the opportunity to learn everything.

-- Kay Whitley, Out Loud: A collection of spoken word poetry

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

-- Erasmus, Dune

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

-- John Dewey, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

God wants to use you right where you are with what you have not what you do not have.

-- Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

-- Socrates, Percepliquis

Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen.

-- John Holt, Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better

I hope you outlive me so I never have to know what life is like without you.

-- C.J. English, Affairytale