极简是文明的极致。 (Simplicity is the peak of civilization.) —— Author：Jessie Sampter

每一天，我都在以各种方式变得越来越好。 (Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.) —— Author：Émile Coué

我常常引用自己的话，它可以为我的谈话增添点色彩。 (I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.) —— Author：George Bernard Shaw

如果我既担忧未来又担忧现在，那么这样的生活不值得我去过。 (Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.) —— Author：W. Somerset Maugham

教育的目的是使空洞的大脑变得开放宽广。 (Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.) —— Author：Malcolm Forbes

自信是成大事的首要条件。 (Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.) —— Author：Samuel Johnson

没有什么是不可能的，只是有些事可能性比其他的小一点而已。 (Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.) —— Author：Jonathan Winters

吃的永远不要比能拿的多。 (Never eat more than you can lift.) —— Author：Miss Piggy

时尚是一种无法容忍的丑陋，以至于我们每六个月就得改变它一次。 (Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.) —— Author：Oscar Wilde

生命中最重要的两天，是你出生的那一天，和你弄清楚为何而生的那一天。 (The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.) —— Author：Mark Twain

时机恰当的沉默比话语更有说服力。 (Well-timed silence has more eloquence than speech.) —— Author：Martin Fraquhar Tupper

食物是最原始的安慰人心的东西。 (Food is the most primitive form of comfort.) —— Author：Sheila Graham

名言很少能被正确引用。 (Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.) —— Author：Simeon Strunsky

每个人都必定是自己人生故事中的主角。 (Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.) —— Author：John Barth

一本好的小说告诉我们关于主角的种种真相；而一本糟糕的小说告诉我们关于作家自己的种种真相。 (A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.) —— Author：G. K. Chesterton