Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

-- Budha, The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.

-- Julio Cortázar, Rules of Attraction

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

-- Doris Lessing, Anne of Green Gables

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

-- Nikki Giovanni, Case Histories

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

-- Mae West, The Intern

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

-- Mark Twain, The Battle of the Labyrinth

The more one judges, the less one loves.

-- Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage

閱讀使人知識淵博；談論使人處事機敏；寫作則使人判斷精準。

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

-- 法蘭西斯．培根，哲學家

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

-- Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.

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

Life is short. Focus on what really matters most; you should change your priorities over time.

-- Roy T. Bennett, The Lost Hero

You're either reading a book or you're not.

-- Jonathan Franzen, طرف غترته

Man is, that he may have Joy.

-- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

-- Erasmus, Personal Success

Were knowledge all, what were our need To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?

-- Christopher Brennan, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

-- Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

知識給你力量，品格使你值得尊敬。

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

-- 李小龍，國際知名武打演員

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

-- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Sometimes, something meaningless occurs, somewhere with meaning.

-- F. Thomas Vincent, Roots of Faith

What will he then do unto his name whereby we are called? ...of these things have I asked.

-- Compton Gage, Lights Out: Book 2