The world exists to end up in a book.

-- Stéphane Mallarmé, Transport to Summer

Happy people produce. Bored people consume.

-- Stephen Richards, Killosophy

You're an idiot." "I've never claimed to be otherwise.

-- Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

-- Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

我從來不改變自身本質去取悅他人，我就是我自己。

I don't try to change myself to impress anybody. I'm just who I am.

-- 提姆．鄧肯，美國前職業籃球員

If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life.

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

Education is the seed of thought. If the mind is fertile, it will grow better crops.

-- Debasish Mridha M.D., Think Great: Be Great!

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

-- Franz Kafka, The Living

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

-- Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

Many people see happiness only in their future.

-- François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

-- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

-- Dolly Parton, When Demons Walk

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

-- Abraham Lincoln, Robinson Crusoe

I am a wild woman. it would take a warrior to tame my spirit.

-- Nikki Rowe, Eyes Turned Skyward

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life.

-- Helen Exley, Tao Te Ching

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Method

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

-- Abraham Lincoln, Gone with the Wind

Holy swoonballs!

-- Cristin Harber, Black Dawn

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

-- Brian Tracy, Attachments

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

-- Maya Angelou