To think is good. To obsess is bad.

-- Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

-- Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

-- Erica Jong, Winnie-the-Pooh

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

-- Bruce Lee, Anthem

Weisheit kann Angst nicht bannen, Angst jedoch kann Weisheit bannen.

-- Mahabharata. Bhagavadgita. English., The Altar of the Body: A Novel

Evil is of the devil.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Anissa's Redemption

The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.

-- Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi

The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel; for the world hast fast to pass away-

-- Compton Gage, Potentiality Enhancement Programs

My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.

-- Jack Kerouac, Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

-- Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

-- Terry Pratchett, 2666

Choose your love. Love your choice.

-- Thomas S. Monson, Destroy Me

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

-- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

You don't know, oh, oh You don't know you're beautiful.

-- One Direction, Me Before You

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

-- Octavia E. Butler, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

-- Ezra Pound, Matilda

To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.

-- Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

-- Albert Einstein, Everything Is Illuminated

All of life is a constant education.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, The Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt

Without books, the world will be void.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Winners' Guide