Education isn’t something your professors make for you. It’s something you make for yourself.

-- Lance Olsen, Rebel Yell: A Short Guide to Fiction Writing

Nothing exists that is more valuable than time

-- Sunday Adelaja, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.

-- Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

The Sufi teacher’s mission is to be in the service of those who can learn.

-- Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.

-- Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps

拿走我的工廠，我的機器設備；拿走我的錢；但請將我的人才留下，不用兩、三年，我將再度擁有一切。

Take away my factories, my plants; take away my money;strip me of all these;but leave me my people, and in two or three years I will have them all again.

-- 安德魯．卡內基，美國鋼鐵大王

love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

If you want to be drunk, become drunk with an idea.

-- Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

Know thyself.

-- Socrates, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.

-- G.I. Gurdjieff, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

-- Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

-- Socrates, To Kill a Mockingbird

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

-- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

Time is the skin of existence.

-- Renzo Dante (Saligiare), The Problem of Pain

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

-- Carlos María Domínguez, The House of Paper

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

-- Toni Morrison, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley - Volume 1

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

-- Terry Pratchett, Poems from the Heart

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

-- Jalaluddin Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

-- Veronica Roth, Allegiant

It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.

-- Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success