Life is a long lesson in humility.

-- J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister

The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.

-- Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

-- Compton Gage, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

-- Oscar Wilde, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

-- Henry David Thoreau, The Handmaid's Tale

I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.

-- Matt Smith, Brave New World

If you can't stomach an ending, don't begin.

-- Patrick Bryant, Hum A Radiant Sickness

That's what I've noticed about being 32: it is a lot of women and a lot of boys our age.

-- Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.

-- Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us

Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.

-- Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

-- E.M. Forster, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

-- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.

-- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Ego is recessive in wisdom.

-- Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.

-- Nelson Mandela, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

-- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more.

-- Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

-- Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff

Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.

-- Ozzie Zehner, Green Illusions

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.

-- P.C. Cast, Macbeth