It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

—Joseph Brodsky

Man is what he reads.

—Joseph Brodsky

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

—Joseph Brodsky

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

—A. J. Liebling

Life is always uncertain. We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.

—Susanna Kearsley in The Rose Garden

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

Everyone lets you down, it’s a fact of life. The key is to know when they’re doing it because they don’t care enough to try not to.

—Kelley York in Hushed

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

—Abu Bakr