“There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“But as soon as one is at rest in this world off he goes on something else to worry about.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream. But I put no stamp on it and it was held for postage somewhere.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has co…”— Alan Bennett, amazon.com
“'Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?' Mo had said. 'As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells. And then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly you…”— Cornelia Funke, amazon.com
“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com
“Just remember that sometimes the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.”— John Green, amazon.com
“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com
“In nineteen minutes, you can order a pizza and get it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge.”— Jodi Piclout, amazon.com
“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game.”— Jodi Piclout, amazon.com
“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.”— Dale Carnegie, amazon.com
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”— Deepak Chopra, books.google.com
“If you gathered up all the fearful thoughts that exist in the mind of the average person, looked at them objectively, and tried to decide just how much good they provided that person, you would see that not some but all fearful thoughts are useless. They do no good. Zero. They interfere with dreams,…”— Richard Carlson, books.google.com