Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

-- Truman Capote, The Admirable Crichton

But what is life if you don't live it?

-- James Patterson, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

-- Benjamin Disraeli, What the Dead Know

Long before something happens in our life, it happened in our heart.

-- Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. (Matthew 5:14, The Message)

-- Anonymous, The Message Remix

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

-- Jack Lemmon, Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

-- Robert Frost, Love Is a Dog from Hell

Skills kill.

-- Alin Sav, Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

-- Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

لن تكون متدينا إلا بالعلم ...فالله لا يعبد بالجهل

-- مصطفى محمود, القرآن: محاولة لفهم عصري

What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know.

-- Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.

-- Harold Bloom, The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories

Waiting is erotic

-- Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française

Our souls are always looking for love, and hearts wait to treasure it.

-- Munia Khan, Demons and Dangers: Magic and Mayhem - Book 4

I thought of the past and how one should have respect for it, like the elderly.

-- Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Anyone can smile for a photo, but who is still smiling after the selfie?

-- Ken Poirot, The Stone Sky

如果你能在周三前做完，就說你將在周五前做完，然後周二把東西交出去。

If you can have it done by Wednesday, say you'll have it done by Friday. Then, deliver it on Tuesday.

-- 理查．譚普勒，英國暢銷作家

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

-- Mother Teresa, Persuasion

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

-- Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics Writings on Philosophy and Literature

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

-- Alice Walker, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire