Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

-- E.E. Cummings, Straight Up and Dirty

What are the messages that you are entertaining?

-- Asa Don Brown, For the Time Being

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

-- Albert Camus, The Books in My Life

The wise shall learn.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Film Testament

Hear me, and I will instruct thee; hearken to the thing that I say, and I shall tell thee more.

-- Compton Gage, Moth Smoke

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

-- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

若你專注在競爭者上，你永遠無法做出真正創新的東西。

If you focus on your competition, you will never deliver anything truly innovative.

-- 艾瑞克．施密特，Google董事長

The only certainty life contains is death.

-- Patricia Briggs, When Demons Walk

Stop giving the best part of you to those unworthy of that gift.

-- Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

-- Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

So many people set off in a direction in life but don’t think things completely through first.

-- John Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

-- Anaïs Nin, Sputnik Sweetheart

Have the courage to follow your heart.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

-- Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

-- Abraham Lincoln, Stranger in a Strange Land

It is possible to find the passion to read.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Anti-capitalistic Mentality

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

-- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Past data should only be used as a learning and not as a base for setting future goals

-- Harrish Sairaman, The Usurper: And Other Stories

To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.

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

Power does not pardon, power punishes.

-- Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words