“In Kant's language, even 'Good morning,' suitably pronounced, can take the shape of a metaphysical thesis.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“What can we see or acquire, but what we are? You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil. Well, that author is a thousand books to a thousand persons. Take the book into your two hands, and read your eyes out; you will never find what I find.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Spiritual Laws

“My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

“Man . . . how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fancy or two.”

― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“When I was sixteen, I made the discovery—love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“I always want to know the things one shouldn't do . . . So as to choose”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It’s the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect—but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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