"What is lovely never dies, but passes into other lovliness." - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they've forgotten their own." - Margaret Atwood

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them." - Jane Austen

"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it's faced." - James Arthur Baldwin

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-concious, and anything self-concious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things." - Ray Douglas Bradbury

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and acheive it, generation after generation." - Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on." - William Burroughs

"You do not notice changes in what is always before you." - Colette

"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved." - Colette

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough." - Frank H. Crane

"We are, each of us, angels with only one wing; and we can only fly be embracing one another." - Luciano De Crescenzo

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." - Stephen R. Covey

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." - Charles Dickens

"I am an invisible man. No, I am no a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe: nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fibre and liquids - and I might even be said to posess a mind. I am invisible, simply because people refuse to see me." - Ralph Ellison

"I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articluate exactly whatI felt to be the truth." - Ralph Ellison

"When I discover who I am, I'll be free." - Ralph Ellison

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only was to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My mother is a fish." - William Faulkner

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself." - Harvey Fierstein

"Failure is simply the oppurtunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." - Henry Ford

"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again." - Goethe

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." - Ernest Hemingway

"Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one." - Herman Hesse

"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." - Elbert Hubbard

"Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley.

"Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it mean collapse." - William James

"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past." - Thomas Jefferson

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads." - Erica Jong

"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." - Erica Jong

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce

"Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." - Madeleine L'Engle

"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along." - Madeleine L'Engle

"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it." - Toni Morrison

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzche

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anais Nin

"So now I know the things I know/And do the thing I do/And if you do not like me so/To hell, my love, with you." - Dorothy Parker

"Those who dream by day are cognizant [knowledgable] of many things which escapethose who dream only by night." - Edgar Allen Poe

"We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." - Marcel Proust

"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is." - Ayn Rand

"The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible...." - Bertrand Russell

"The meaning of things lie not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy." - J.D. Salinger

"Hell is other people." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do" - Jean-Paul Sartre

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"Everyone takes the limit of his own vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time." - Charles Schulz

"I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it." - Charles Schulz

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." - Dr. Seuss

"I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...but I am too busy thinking about myself." - Edith Sidwell

"If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?" - Gloria Steinman

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it." - William Styron

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." - Henry David Thoreau, from Walden

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau

"Men have become the tools of their tools." - Henry David Thoreau

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will become simpler." - Henry David Thoreau

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." - Mark Twain

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." - Mark Twain

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." - Mark Twain

"All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, then success is sure." - Mark Twain

"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better." - John Updike

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut

"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order to they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." - Kurt Vonnegut

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." - Alice Walker

"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored." - Evelyn Waugh

"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them." - Evelyn Waugh

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." - Mae West

"It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home." - Thornton Wilder

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton

"Lock up you libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." - Virginia Woolf

"I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street." - Virginia Woolf

"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points." - Virginia Woolf

"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top." - Virginia Woolf