Language is an intricate puzzle. Words serve as the complex puzzle pieces. When alone, each part is a meaningless and useless fragment, but when perfectly positioned together in a phrase, sentence, or paragraph, they have the power to create immense emotion, wisdom, or laughter.

Some people collect snow globes. I collect quotes.

Here are a few of my absolute favorites!

1. "If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you will never learn." --"Fahrenheit 451", Ray Bradbury

2. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." --Albert Einstein

3. "I do not judge you. It is the magistrate that sits in your heart that judges you." --"The Crucible", Arthur Miller

4. "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." --Ernest Hemingway

5. "If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." -- Ronald Dahl

6. "We cannot tell the exact moment when friendship is formed." --James Boswe

7. "Do not forget small kindnesses and do not remember small faults" --Chinese Proverb

8. "Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets among it and knowledge can raise men to the divine." --Beethoven

9. "God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other." --Elizabeth Siften

10. "Black and whites can be separate as the fingers yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." --Booker T. Washington

11. "It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee." --Nicholas Sparks

12. "The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart and all they can do is stare blankly." --"The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald

13. "Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept humans created." --Yoko Ono

14. "Do what you feel in your heart is right- for you'll be criticized anyway." --Eleanor Roosevelt

15. "I put your name on the bullet so everyone knows you were the last thing that went through my head." --Unknown

16. "All great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." --Albert Einstein

17. "When I saw you I fell in love and you smiled because you knew." --William Shakespeare

18. "There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice." --F. Scott Fitzgerald."

19. "I was never insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched." --Edgar Allen Poe

20. "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." --Cescir A. Cruz

21. "Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." --"Pride and Prejudice", Jane Austen

22. "We are all unreliable narrators, not just in the way we tell our stories to others, but how we tell them to others." --Deb Caletti

23. "I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." --"To Kill a Mockingbird", Harper Lee

24. "But you know, happiness can be found...even in the darkest of times...if only one remembers to turn on the light." --"Harry Potter"

25. "Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind and see." --Mark Twain

26. "Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." --Buddha

27. "We judge others by their actions, ourselves by our intentions." --Dan Beckman

28. "There is more to life than increasing its speed." --Mahatma Ghandi

29. "Always the same narrow minded people, the same mindless chatter." --The Titanic

30. "What lies before us and what lies ahead of us are small matters compared to what lies within us." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

31. "Rase your words, not your voice. It is the rain that grows flowers, not thunder." --Rumi

32. "The principle you have to base your performance on is very simple, really; if you're locked up in a dark room, you become accustomed to the darkness after a while. But if someone keeps turning the light on and off, your suffering is unbearable, because each time you've got to get used to the light and the darkness."-- "Second Killing of a Dog", Marek Hlasko

33. "See many people die because they judge that life is not worth living I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living." --Albert Camus

34. "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged cupid painted blind." --"Hamlet", Shakespeare

35. "The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint paintings that do?" --Pablo Picasso

36. "For the laws that a man imposes on another he should himself in justice observe." --"Canterbury Tales" (Man of Law's Tale)

37. "There is nothing I wouldn't do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not in my nature." --"Northanger Abbey", Jane Austen

38. "Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin." --"Frankenstein", Mary Shelley