2. “Stay” is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. Louisa May Alcott

3. If you can find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Maya Angelou

4. There is a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. Maya Angelou

5. Nobody minds having what is too good for them. Jane Austen

6. When an opinion is general, it is usually correct. Jane Austen

7. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James Baldwin

8. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin

9. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake

10. Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. Charlotte Bronte

11. Look twice before you leap. Charlotte Bronte

12. If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. Emily Bronte

13. Reading is important— read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything. Gwendolyn Brooks

14. Books succeed, and lives fail. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

15. A woman’s always younger than a man of equal years. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

16. Where there is great love, there are always wishes. Willa Cather

17. Give people a new word and they think they have a new fact. Willa Cather

18. Love is blind! Geoffrey Chaucer

19. Advice is like snow— the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

20. A word is dead when it is said, some say, I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson

21. Without a struggle, there can be no progress. Frederick Douglass

22. A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. Frederick Douglas

23. Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes. Paul Lawrence Dunbar

24. Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. George Eliot

25. It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot

26. The ancestor of every action is a thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson

27. Books are for nothing but to inspire. Ralph Waldo Emerson

28. This is the way the world ends; not with a bang, but a whimper. T. S. Eliot

29. The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. William Faulkner

30. Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat… F. Scott Fitzgerald

31. I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Earnest Hemingway

32. In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost

33. Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. Lorraine Hansberry

34. The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. Lorraine Hansberry

35. I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I am awake, you know? Ernest Hemingway

36. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes

37. It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristics. James Weldon Johnson

38. Get busy living, or get busy dying. Stephen King

39. Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbors. Rudyard Kipling

40. The one thing that does not abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. Harper Lee

41. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. Harper Lee

42. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London

43. For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. Herman Melville

44. What difference does it make if the thing you are scared of is real or not? Toni Morrison

45. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell

46. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. George Orwell

47. I have great faith in fools. My friends call it self-confidence. Edgar Allen Poe

48. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allen Poe

49. A fool thinks himself wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare

50. This above all: to thine own self be true William Shakespeare

51. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves. William Shakespeare

52. No one wants advice— only corroboration. John Steinbeck

53. Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die. Alfred Lord Tennyson

54. Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson

55. Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me. Dylan Thomas

56. Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Henry David Thoreau

57. Books are thee treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Henry David Thoreau

58. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. Mark Twain

59. If we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton

60. I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman

61. Experience is one thing that you can’t get for nothing. Oscar Wilde

62. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker

63. Being happy is not the only happiness. Alice Walker

64. A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping lift someone else. Booker T. Washington

65. The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. Richard Wright