The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.

— Charlie Munger

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.

— Virginia Woolf

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

— Albert Camus

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

— Coco Chanel

Not all those who wander are lost.

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

— Louisa May Alcott

One must always be careful of bookshelves and what is written in them, for words have the power to change us.

— Cassandra Clare