Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.

-- Maya Angelou, Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning, and Living

He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.

-- Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

-- Douglas William Jerrold, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

唯一真正的智慧，就是知道自己一無所知。

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

-- 蘇格拉底，希臘哲學家

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

-- Eudora Welty, Snow Falling on Cedars

And baby, the way you move me it's crazy

-- Ray Lamontagne, A Pair of Blue Eyes

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

-- Georgia O'Keeffe, Arok Dedes

人生的道路都是由心來描繪的，所以，無論自己處於多麼嚴酷的境遇之中，心頭都不應為悲觀的思想所縈繞。

-- 稻盛和夫，京瓷和KDDI創辦人

The road to success doesn't allow detours; it's a one-way street.

-- Kyle Vidrine, Wake Up The Winner In You: Your Time Is Now

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

-- Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

I wanted to live among books.

-- Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

love is giving everything too easily then staying to try and claw it back

-- Andrew McMillan, Physical

At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.

-- Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

The vision is always for the appointed time.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

化簡為繁，屢見不鮮；化繁為簡，甚至於極簡，才是創意。

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

-- 查爾斯．明格斯，美國作曲家

別在乎別人做什麼；做得比自己好，每天突破自己的紀錄，你就是一位成功者！

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

-- 威廉‧博克，牧師

Sacrifice precedes success.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charl

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise

-- David Zindell, The Broken God

Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.

-- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

光竭盡所能是不夠的，你必須知道該做什麼，再竭盡所能。

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

-- 威廉．戴明，美國質量管理大師