Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.

-- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Be careful the mistake of yesterday always lives with tomorrow.

-- Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

As for you, you're unwise: how may you then speak of these things whereof thou ask you?

-- Compton Gage, The Book of Memory

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

-- Michael Chabon, 84, Charing Cross Road

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

-- Mae West, Julian

Soul bonds can't be broken. They only bend for a while . . .

-- Diane J. Reed, Apoy sa Malamig na Puso

The murder of a child has no justification, even if the bombs have missed their mark.

-- Compton Gage, Maybe Someday

Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

-- Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

-- Brian Jacques, Collected Poems

Make your ideal your new real.

-- Derek Padula, You Can Work Your Own Miracles

Perseverance, endurance and patience are the three greatest survival skills.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Having declared a passion for his wildness, she had sought from the beginning to tame him.

-- Titania Hardie, The Rose Labyrinth

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

-- Anne Frank, Graceling

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

-- Jalaluddin Rumi, The Fellowship of the Ring

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

A man need is pain to be delivered from the pleasure of sin.

-- Lailah Gifty, Akita, Less

你能給孩子最棒的禮物，就是責任的根、以及獨立之翼。

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

-- 丹尼斯．魏特利，美國激勵演說家

努力追求完美是最大的阻礙。那是你給自己找的藉口，好讓你什麼都不做。你應該追求的是「卓越」，盡力就好。

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best .

-- 勞倫斯．奧利佛，英國導演、演員

The act of reading is skill that can be cultivated.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

For the sake of the aftermath.

-- Steve Dolson, You Are Safe Here.