Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
-- Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.
-- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
There is nothing around me but money, money, money.
-- Stephen Richards, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)
-- Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.
-- Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.
-- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.
-- Quentin R. Bufogle, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Many people are so poor that the only thing they have is money. Cultivate your spiritual growth.
-- Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!
-- Mehmet Murat ildan, Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell
What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
-- Norman Vincent Peale, The Light in the Heart
The best self is a good being.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Vernon Subutex, 1
If this is a dream, may we never wake up!
-- Ahmed Mostafa, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
沒有人不想和你同坐一輛豪華轎車,但你需要的,卻是轎車壞了還會和你一起搭巴士的人。
Everybody wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you need is somebody who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
-- 歐普拉.溫芙蕾,美國電視脫口秀主持人、製片人、投資家、慈善家
In worthy teaching, all things are related.
-- Confucius, The Analects
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.
-- Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
You can use the stumbling blocks to build your success.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Fear cuts deeper than swords.
-- George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
你不是為了尋找自己而活,是為了創造自己而活!
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- 蕭伯納,愛爾蘭劇作家
Education is no substitute for intelligence.
-- Frank Herbert, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center