Don't let the bastards grind you down.

-- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

The Spirit calls, I must go fulfill the mission.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Way of Perfection

Hope in God makes a happy heart.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Beautiful People with Beautiful Feelings

For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge the more grief.

-- Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version

The ultimate purpose of a teacher is to teach students to think in a better way.

-- Debasish Mridha M.D., Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

-- Søren Kierkegaard, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

-- George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

...Next thing I know you've run off to Paris and thrown yourself under the nearest Frenchman-

-- Nicholls David, One Day

It is better to seek wisdom of God than human.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life

Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

-- Gordon B. Hinckley, Quatrains - Ballades

The purpose of education should be character-building.

-- Abhijit Naskar, The Kite Runner

Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

-- Shannon L. Alder, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

-- William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems

When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.

-- Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

-- Sam Levenson, Laughable Loves

She’s a natural submissive and she doesn’t have a clue.

-- D.L. Hess, Sir

Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?

-- Elizabeth Hoyt, Notorious Pleasures

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

-- Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

-- Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

Black and white, severally incomplete and at the same time completely several.

-- Vikrmn, Corpkshetra