After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
-- Philip Pullman, The New Life
Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.
-- Rick Barnett, Twenty Weeks
Who said to kill does not require gentleness?
-- Nawal El-Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
I thought... that we could at least talk about books.
-- Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
「價格是初賽，服務是決賽」，要讓客戶願意跟你進一步往來，就要靠成績和專業贏得信賴。
-- 黃永仁，玉山金控董事長
Applaud my idiocy.
-- Conan O'Brien, Player One: What Is to Become of Us
Just for the record: happiness is not bullshit.
-- Andrew Sean Greer, Less
And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.... Don't settle
-- Steve Jobs, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
-- Ayn Rand, Two College Girls
You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.
-- Jayce O'Neal, The Shadow of the Wind
One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
-- Mary Renault, The Persian Boy
A man only misfortune is to forsake his Maker.
-- Lailah Gifty, Akita, Letters from a Stoic
No matter what you say to someone else, you always hear it first.
-- Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
我們有能力選擇這樣想，而不是那樣想，就是對抗壓力最好的武器。
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
-- 威廉．詹姆士，美國哲學與心理學家
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
-- Charlotte Brontë, Paradise
Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook
-- Nizar Qabbani, Indonesia Menggugat: Pidato Pembelaan Bung Karno di Muka Hakim Kolonial
Growing older does not automatically mean growing kinder or wiser.
وابتعدت.. دون أن أفسـّر حتى لنفسى أسباب هذا الهروب !
-- مكاوي سعيد, تغريدة البجعة
Love them that hate you, but you can't love them whom you hate.
-- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
