It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

-- Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

-- Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

Hate sin. Love righteousness of God.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Less

成功的秘密，在於學習利用痛苦和喜悅，而非讓痛苦和喜悅利用你。如果你懂得這麼做，就能控制自己的人生；如果你不懂，你的人生將會控制你。

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

-- 托尼．羅賓斯，美國激勵演說家

So that’s it? You’re just going to rescue me and go?

-- Pamela Clare, First Strike

Men were just plain ridiculous with how little time it took them to get handsome.

-- Gina Robinson, The Spy Who Left Me

It's just the end of some things. And the beginning of others.

-- Lisa McMann, Fade

在任何工作成功的機率，都能以你對自己的信念來衡量。

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

-- 羅伯特．柯里爾，美國勵志作家

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

-- Allen Ginsberg, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.

-- Louisa May Alcott, Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott

工作效益不在於時間長短，而在於真正做了什麼。

It’s not the hours you put in your work that counts, it’s the work you put in the hours.

-- 山姆．尤恩，美國作家

Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.

-- Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.

-- Brian Tracy, Words of Radiance

You Can't Lose Something You Never Had

-- Kate Hudson, I Kissed Dating Goodbye

Art is the proper task of life.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Meditations

Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.

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

Two farewell gifts," Sadie muttered, "from two gorgeous guys. I hate my life.

-- Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire

One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.

-- Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

The unexamined life is not worth living.

-- Socrates, Foundation

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

-- Murray N. Rothbard, Education, Free & Compulsory