“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“Hence, also, we are all innocent to begin with, and this merely means that neither we nor others know the evil of our own nature; it only appears with the motives, and only in time do the motives appear in knowledge.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“what we dwell on is who we become—as a woman thinks, so she is.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“I try not to speak about the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.”

― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

“No country sacrifices its men without reason, and certainly not in the interests of another”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Snow-crystals, the flowers of the mountain clouds, are frail, beautiful things, but terrible when flying on storm-winds in darkening, benumbing swarms or when welded together into glaciers full of deadly crevasses.”

― John Muir, Stickeen

“Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature . . . but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit...”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“To fear the worst oft cures the worse.”

― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

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