The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

-- Lily Tomlin, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

-- G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

Education has enhanced my wisdom. Simplicity and humility will not allow me to call myself wise.

-- Debasish Mridha M.D., Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Self confidence is the greatest courage for any success.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.

-- Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us

...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.

-- Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.

Et tu, Brute?

-- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

When we lose our spiritual child then that is when we have grown old.

-- Stephen Richards, Meditations

The Holy Bible is the best of all books.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Year of Fire and Ash

如果這是好想法，儘管去做，道歉總比取得同意容易得多。

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

-- 葛蕾絲．霍普，電腦科學家

Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become.

-- Mary Weber, Storm Siren

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

-- Orison Swett Marden, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be.

-- Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

A man. A really manly man with a lot of mannishness in his manliness.

-- Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.

-- Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

-- Jim Rohn, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

The love I knew was from books..

-- Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Days of Reading

I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.

-- Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

-- Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

Well, what do you know? Fakespeare!

-- Hillary DePiano, The Love of Three Oranges: A Play for the Theatre That Takes the Commedia Dell'arte of Carlo Gozzi a