I love great quotes. There are few things as powerful or as descriptive. Someday maybe I'll come up with good ones for myself, but until then here are some of my favorites. Some are meant to be serious and meaningful, others...well...aren't.

"Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate." -J.R.R. Tolkien

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
-Ralph Vaull Starr

"If a person offends you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick."
-Mark Twain

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -Douglas Adams

"Reality can be beaten with enough imagination." -Unknown

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." -William Shakespeare

"Do you know why everyone wants a rose wreath, dear?...You know-pansy for thoughtfulness, yew for sorrow, bay for glory, dock for tomorrow? Roses are for love. Not forget-me-not, honeysuckle, silly sweethearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead."
-Robin McKinley, Excerpt from Rose Daughter

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." -Unknown

"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
-Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Should I find blue roses in your kingdom?" she asked.
"No," said the Discoverer gently. "But there will be nothing to prevent you from looking for them." -Netta Syrett, Excerpt from Blue Roses

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
-Ursula K. Le Guin