"The two offices of memory are collection and distribution."
-Samuel Johnson

"Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose."
-From the TV show 'The Wonder Years'

"Every man's memory is his private literature."
-Aldous Huxley

"Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience and the council-chamber of thought."
-Giamattiste Basile