“I love mankind... it's people I can't stand!”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”

“May you live every day of your life.”

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“Libraries were full of ideas, perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?”

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”

“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away.”

“Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”

“'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.”

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

“Don't think or judge, just listen.”

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.”

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

“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.”

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”

“Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company.”

“If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.”

“Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”

“Better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.”

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“'Tis better to have loved and lost.”

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?”

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”

“You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”