A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years.

...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

John Green

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

Emily Dickinson

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

Annie Leibovitz

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Henri B. Stendhal

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life.

Drew Barrymore

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Robert A. Heinlein

Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

Eileen Caddy

The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.

Eliot Spitzer

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

Norman Borlaug

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

Jane Austen

I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake, but the original. It's still one of the best movies, hands down, ever made, and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline.

Corey Feldman