Quotes

Quotes


Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
- Charles William Eliot
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway
I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
- Paulo Coelho, Alchemist
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
- Albert Einstein
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
- Aristotle
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
- Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest