Groucho Marx

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it."

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

"Humor is reason gone mad."

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."

Groucho Marx

Joseph Conrad

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."

Joseph Conrad

Dorothy Parker

"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."

Dorothy Parker

Robert A. Heinlein

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."

Robert A. Heinlein

Oscar Wilde

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Oscar Wilde

Bessie Anderson Stanley

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

Bessie Anderson Stanley

Apple Computers

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

Text copy from Apple Computer Inc.

Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."

Mark Twain

Dr Seuss

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

Dr. Seuss

Desmond Tutu

"My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right."

Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu

"In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t."

Desmond Tutu

A.S. Byatt

"This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run. But now, my love, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere."

A.S. Byatt

Joanne Harris

"Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive."

Joanne Harris

Calvin and Hobbes

“I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.”

Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin [and Hobbes]

“You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood."
"What mood is that?"
"Last-minute panic."

Calvin [and Hobbes]

Joanne Harris

"Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored."

Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris

"It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her."

Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris

"Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are. "

Joanne Harris

Nelson Mandela

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us: it's in everyone. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

"It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us...
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you...
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us."

Nelson Mandela.

Ursula K. Le Guin

"Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

Ursula K. Le Guin

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

"Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason..."

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Andre Maurois

"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others."

Andre Maurois

Calvin [and Hobbes]

"To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible."

Calvin [and Hobbes]

Calvin [and Hobbes]

"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help".

Calvin [and Hobbes]

Jessamyn West

"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own."

Jessamyn West

Henry David Thoreau

"One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense."

Henry David Thoreau

Candice Bergen

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

Winston Churchill

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."

Winston Churchill

Terry Pratchett

"Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack".

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

"An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on."

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

"The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head."

Terry Pratchett

Walt Whitman

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."

Walt Whitman

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Marlene Dietrich

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter".

Marlene Dietrich

AS Byatt

"What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books."

AS Byatt

Barack Obama

"I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody's religious beliefs -including my own- on nonbelievers."

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

"What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father."

Barack Obama

Nelson Mandela

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

Nelson Mandela

Terry Pratchett

"It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it."

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."

Terry Pratchett

Gloria Steinem

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

Gloria Steinem

Richard Bach

"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."

Richard Bach

Richard Bach

"Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours."

Richard Bach

Charles Lamb

"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have that nonsense respected."

Charles Lamb

Richard Bach

"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"

Richard Bach

Baha'u'llah

"Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path."

Baha'u'llah

AA Milne

"Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."

AA Milne

AA Milne

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

AA Milne

AA Milne

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"

"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"

"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.

Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said."

AA Milne

AA Milne

"'I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.'"

AA Milne

Gloria Naylor

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."

Gloria Naylor

Mary McCarthy

"You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk."

Mary McCarthy

Thomas Jefferson

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."

Thomas Jefferson

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

John Churton Collins

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."

John Churton Collins

CS Lewis

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another:
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

C.S Lewis