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

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and — I cant remember what the third thing is. – Fred A. Allen

And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses — would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? – Rainer Maria Rilke