If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

-- Dorothy Parker, V for Vendetta

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

-- Mark Twain, Joan of Arc

Surprise!-FitzChivalry

-- Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.

-- Turcois Ominek, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.

-- Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

I would rather have 30 minutes of "wonderful" than a lifetime of nothing special.

-- Julia L. Roberts, Meditations

... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

-- George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

What betrayed me? Was it my heart? Or my Soul?

-- Compton Gage, Hey Nostradamus!

Lips that have tasted the salt of tears always give the sweetest kiss.

-- C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House

The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.

-- Rachel Gibson, I'm In No Mood For Love

I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

-- Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

Do your best and let God do the rest.

-- Ben Carson, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.

-- Rae Carson, The Girl of Fire and Thorns

We live for books.

-- Umberto Eco, The Shadow of the Wind

لو كان الفقر رجلاً لقتلته !

-- Ali ibn Abi Talib, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

-- Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Clockwork Angel

如果你想得到從未擁有的東西，你就得去做從未做過的事。

If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.

-- 湯瑪斯·傑佛遜，美國開國元勛、美國前總統

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

-- Brian Tracy, Anne of the Island

Nothing trains like the triumph in trials.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Dancing with the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

You must do much work to fulfill your dream.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals