Famous Quotes

"Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery."

"Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion."

"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."

"Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better."

"I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength"

"If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going."

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself"

"You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett"

"It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed."

"The best kind of humans are the ones who stay."

"Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution."

"In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?"

"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."

"The shell must break before the bird can fly."

"Death comes to us all"

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash."

"Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences."

"There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results."

"It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with."

"Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard."

"Most people die with their music still locked up inside them."

"Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked."