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"Each reader reads only what is already inside himself. A book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to let the reader discover in himself what he would not have found without the aid of the book."
-Marcel Proust

"Good things take time; great things happen all at once."
- Rat Race

"We’re supposed to smile at the passions of the young, and at what we recall of our own passions, as if they were no more than a series of sweet frauds we’d fooled ourselves with and then wised up to. Not only the passion of boys and girls for each other the others, too — passion for justice, for doing right, for turning the world around. All these come in their time under our wintry smiles. Yet there was nothing foolish about what we felt. Nothing merely young."
- Tobias Wolff, "Smorgasbord"

"The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it."
- François-Marie Arouet (aka Voltaire)

"To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour."
- William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence"

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
- Winston Churchill

"It is the terrible deception of love that it begins by engaging us in play not with a woman of the external world but with a doll fashioned in our brain--the only woman moreover that we have always at our disposal, the only one we shall ever possess--whom the arbitrary power of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the Balbec of my dreams had been from the real Balbec; an artificial creation which by degrees, and to our own hurt, we shall force the real woman to resemble."
- Marcel Proust, "The Guermantes Way"