To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful.

T.L. Rese

We find fault with perfection itself.

Blaise Pascal

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

James Northcote

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.

Helen Keller

A good example is the best sermon.

Benjamin Franklin

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Voltaire

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

Christine Lahti

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

James Baldwin

Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.

Angela Carter

They who drink beer will think beer.

Washington Irving