A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them

If anyone could prove to me that Christ is outside the truth, and if the truth really did exclude Christ, I should prefer to stay with Christ and not with truth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

Gene Simmons

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

Henry Christopher Bailey

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

Oscar Levant

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

John Keats

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

Andre Maurois

Listen there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

e. e. cummings

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Mortimer J. Adler

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

Albert Camus

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Robert Browning