It is better to be informed than to be ignorant.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

-- J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

Time is the source of all things

-- Sunday Adelaja, Airman

If you stop learning, you soon forget what you already know.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Dream Thieves

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

-- Oscar Wilde, The Fellowship of the Ring

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

-- Susan Sontag, 1984

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

-- Holly Black, Lucinda's Secret

I am a memory house for those I have lost, those I no longer know.

-- Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora

He who has a question will always be able to find the answer.

-- Debasish Mridha, Gertrude

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

-- Dean Karnazes, The Tombs of Atuan

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

-- Seneca, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.

-- Mandy Hale, The Divine Comedy

He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.

-- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

-- Eleanor H. Porter, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

-- Chuck Palahniuk, A Happy Death

Cosmic Ordering is absent in body but present in spirit.

-- Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

-- Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.

-- Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

-- Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

在我的職業生涯中，有超過9000顆球沒投進……我的生命中充滿一次又一次的失敗，所以我成功了。

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times ... And that is why I succeed.

-- 麥可．喬丹，美國籃球明星