"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
— G.K. Chesterton
"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis
"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis
"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
— Charles M. Schulz
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges
"Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read."
— Jorge Luis Borges
"You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened."
— Jorge Luis Borges

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain
"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa
"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein
"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
— Albert Einstein
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
— Albert Einstein
"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
— Albert Einstein
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
— Albert Einstein
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
— Albert Einstein

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin