My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like jazz.

Samuel L. Jackson

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

William Shakespeare

My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive.

Maggie Stiefvater

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Buffalo Bill

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

James Joyce

The child is the father of the man.

William Wordsworth

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Aldous Huxley

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Charlotte Bronte

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.French: La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'eloge ment apres leur mort.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.

John Green

Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Kahlil Gibran