To pursue wisdom is to live in such a way that one is prepared to face death when it comes. (247)

-- Gregory Bassham, The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

-- Barbara Kingsolver, High Fidelity

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

-- Werner Herzog, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

-- Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

-- Winston S. Churchill, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.

-- Leanna Renee Hieber, The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker

I can only strive for what is important

-- Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

-- Frank Herbert, An Autobiography

I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

-- Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

-- Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi

An apology is the superglue of life! It can repair just about anything!!

-- Lynn Johnston, Leaves of Grass

If you delight yourself in lord, He shall give you desires of your heart.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

Totally present in this moment for you.

-- Truth Devour, Unrequited

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

-- Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

If your heart is a volcano,how shall you expect flower to bloom?

-- Gibran Khalil Gibran, The Education Decree

我總是去做那些還沒準備好的事，那是讓你成長的方法。當你說「哇，我不太確定能不能做到」，然後你努力去完成，就能有所突破。

I always did something that I was a little not ready to do. I think that, that is how you grow. When there’s a moment of ‘Wow, I’m not so sure that I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, it’s then that you have a breakthrough.

-- 梅麗莎．梅爾，Yahoo! 執行長

The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.

-- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

-- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

What might have been can be with Cosmic Ordering.

-- Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

-- Mario Benedetti, Safe Haven