好的演講就像女人的迷你裙，要夠長到可以涵蓋主題，又要短得能引人興趣。

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

-- 溫斯頓．邱吉爾，前英國首相

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions.

-- Ken Robinson, Infinite Jest

I am so, so alive.

-- Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

The past has no power over the present moment.

-- Eckhart Tolle

Some people have a heart to do evil and they don’t care if you’re Muslim or Christian.

-- Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

-- Alberto Moravia, The Woman of Rome

The only thing that stops you from from success is fear of the unknown

-- Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian

We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.

-- Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

-- Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

There is no shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.

-- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

love creates a great need to be alone, and aloneness creates a great need to be together.

-- Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

-- Gautama Buddha, Nights in Rodanthe

You are human, so stop acting as if though you are a sheep and start thinking for yourself.

-- Stephen Richards, A Prayer for Owen Meany

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

-- Franz Kafka, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Hope is the highest happiness.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Slaying Dragons

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

-- Gautama Buddha, Critique of the Gotha Program

The day you were born the angels whispered, "She is going to love him until the day she dies.

-- Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable

A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.

-- Lilian Jackson Braun, Norwegian Wood

My secret to happiness? Keep sadness to yourself

-- Cesar Nikko Caharian III, Some Kind of Happiness

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Fight Club