A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

-- William James, To Kill a Mockingbird

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

-- Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

-- Will Self, Into the Wild

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

-- John Green, Looking for Alaska

Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.

-- Swami Vivekananda, Meditation and Its Methods According to Swami Vivekananda

No one has ever become poor by giving.

-- Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

-- Terry Eagleton, The Screwtape Letters

Whatever you are, be a good one.

-- Abraham Lincoln, Frostbite

Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.

-- Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

-- Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

All knowledge is born in the mind, and circumstances make them manifest.

-- Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.

-- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Love, that moves the sun and the other stars

-- Dante Alighieri, Paradiso

If you wish to possess your soul, be patient.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Dancing with the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.

-- Markus Herz, The Garden of Eden

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

-- Sharon Shinn, Jenna Starborn

I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

-- Bette Midler, Keeping the Moon

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

-- C.S. Lewis, The Education of Henry Adams

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

-- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables