The authors behind the books.

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are."

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."

"The world is my representation."

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point is to change it."

"Pain and suffering are the price of a deep heart."

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

"In the depths of winter, I found within me an invincible summer."

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."