Some of my favorite quotes:
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“It turned out that this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And he said– gently– that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born– and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.” - Anne Lamott

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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou

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“I get up. I fall down. Meanwhile, I dance.” (I wasn’t able to find a source for this one. I’m not sure I’m even quoting correctly. This quote is etched in my memory, so e-mail me if you know where it came from.)

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“Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer’s need to change another writer’s copy.” - Arthur Evans

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“What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working even when he’s staring out the window.” - Burton Rascoe

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“I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I write and I understand.” - Chinese Proverb

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“I have always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library.” - Jorge Luis Borges

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“Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers the opportunity to live it.” - John Hersey

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“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” - Mark Twain

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

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“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you’ve already stopped loving that person forever.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon