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

-- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

-- Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

-- Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.

-- Joyce Rachelle, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

I (God) am only a part of your own human consciousness, but a really bizarre part.

-- Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality

It's time to change my life and see the world

-- Jennifer Coletta, An Ember in the Ashes

LIFE - Death's Very Emissary

-- Abhysheq Shukla, KARMA

Play is the highest form of research.

-- Albert Einstein, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

The peace within is the power of the Holy Spirit.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

Live Long and Prosper

-- Leonard Nimoy, The Queen of Attolia

Your fate lies in your hands.

-- Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.

-- J.D. Robb, Agnes Grey

True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.

-- Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

-- Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

-- E.E. Cummings, Allegiant

A gracious heart, a gentle spirit.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

-- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

It takes many years to lay the solid foundation for final success.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid

Nobody steals books but your friends.

-- Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, In One Era & Out the Other