When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

-- Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

Be who you are longing to be, practice thinking of yourself as the person of your dreams.

-- Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

-- Diogenes of Sinope, Beneath the Wheel

In the pages of a book, we are in paradise.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

-- Maya Angelou, City of Bones

領導的作用是產生更多領導者，不是追隨者。

-- 拉爾夫．納德，美國政治家

Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)

-- Ellis Peters, The Leper of Saint Giles

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

-- Budha, The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.

-- Julio Cortázar, Rules of Attraction

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

-- Doris Lessing, Anne of Green Gables

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

-- Nikki Giovanni, Case Histories

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

-- Mae West, The Intern

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

-- Mark Twain, The Battle of the Labyrinth

The more one judges, the less one loves.

-- Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage

閱讀使人知識淵博；談論使人處事機敏；寫作則使人判斷精準。

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

-- 法蘭西斯．培根，哲學家

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

-- Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.

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

Life is short. Focus on what really matters most; you should change your priorities over time.

-- Roy T. Bennett, The Lost Hero

You're either reading a book or you're not.

-- Jonathan Franzen, طرف غترته

Man is, that he may have Joy.

-- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ