“Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.”

Very private people have mastered the art of telling you little about themselves but doing it in such a way you think you know a lot.

You don’t demand respect, you earn it.

If serving is below you, leadership is beyond you.

Books don’t just go with you, they take you where you’ve never been.

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.

Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

You are what you think. All that you are arises from your thoughts. With your thoughts you make your world.

Ignore the noise, focus on your work.

When you feel like quitting think about why you started.

People saying that vegans are weak clearly have no idea of how much strength it takes to stand up for what you believe in.

Business doesn’t need more copycats. Business needs more Dreamers.

Q – that’s what I’ll call this new world, Aomame decided. Q is for question mark. A world that bears a question.

Rather than a problem to be solved, the world is a joyful mystery to be contemplated with gladness and praise.

Anonymity beats fame. One cannot undo fame.

Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

It was a question I had worn on my lips for days – like a loose thread on my favourite sweater I couldn’t resist pulling – despite knowing it could all unravel around me. “Do you love me, I ask?” In your hesitation I found my answer.

Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.

My lips have been silenced for so long, my own voice feels like a stranger.

I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.

And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you’d read this letter with your lips.