Adversity is like a strong wind. It… tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be. (Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha)

逆境猶如勁風，它……扯掉我們身上的所有，卻扯不掉那堅不可摧的東西，讓我們看到真實的自己，而不只是我們可能的樣子。

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience, this is the ideal life (Mark Twain)

擁有好友、好書和一顆寧靜的心，這就是理想的人生

Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle, and best at the end. 

變革在開始時最困難，在中間最混亂，而在結束時最好。

Our desire lends the colours of the rainbow to the mere mists and vapours of life.

我們的慾望把彩虹的顏色借給那只不過是雲霧的人生。( 泰戈爾 Tagore)

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. (Frank Herbert, Dune)

人們潛意識的深處，都普遍追求著一個有邏輯的宇宙，它讓一切有意義。然而，真實的宇宙總是與邏輯有著一步之遙。