Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

-- Edmund Burke, Point of Retreat

Only a heart that knows how to love can ever be broken.

-- Gisclerc Morisset, We Shadows

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

-- B.C. Forbes, A Lion Among Men

We were born as a free soul. We only become enslaved in the world.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Living Peace

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

-- Bill Watterson, Brida

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

-- Michel Houellebecq, You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

-- John Taylor Gatto, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

-- Oprah Winfrey, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you

-- Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape

You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home.

-- Sara Humphreys, Mafia Espresso

Rise to the occassion which is life!

-- Virginia Euwer Wolff, An Abundance of Katherines

Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.

-- Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

-- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

-- C.S. Lewis, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

-- Benjamin Franklin, The Benefactor

Transformation happens only when you put your total energy into it.

-- Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance

如果你想成功，你應該開闢新的路徑，而不是在已成功的道路上行進。

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

-- 約翰 ‧ 洛克菲勒，美國工業家

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

-- Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

想知道自己能不能信任對方，最好的方法就是去信任他們。

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

-- 歐內斯特．海明威，美國記者和作家，諾貝爾文學獎得主

Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

-- Jim Henson, Twilight