I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

-- Oprah Winfrey, The Merchant of Venice

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

-- Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

Blood shall drop out of wood, and the stone shall give his voice, and the people shall be troubled:

-- Compton Gage, Potentiality Enhancement Programs

悲觀者常是對的，樂觀者常是錯的，但所有巨大的變革都是樂觀者完成的。

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

-- 湯瑪斯．佛里曼，《世界是平的》作者

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

-- Victor Hugo, NP

Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.

-- Tiffanie DeBartolo, God-Shaped Hole

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.

-- Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

-- Aristotle, Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

-- Mother Teresa, Brida

I have been at war with parts of myself for so long

-- Mohadesa Najumi, Celine

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

-- William James, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

Wealth is a by-product of Cosmic Ordering.

-- Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.

-- George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

-- B.F. Skinner, The Pleasures of Life

Books connect us readers to what we cannot see but imagine, an intangible sort of wonder and magic.

-- Stephanie Morales, Immortalis: The Guardian

Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.

-- Amit Ray, The Captive Part II / The Power

Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.

-- Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

-- Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.

-- J. Maarten Troost, The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

Love outweighs the liabilities.

-- Martha Cecilia, Apoy sa Malamig na Puso