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“There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation – an ascent above the reach of life's expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings.”
Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2015). “The Haunted Baronet”, p.52, 谷月社
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“A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.”
Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009. 
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“Do you believe you're a starter or a benchwarmer? Do you believe you're an all-star or an also- ran? If the answers to these questions are the latter, your play on the field will reflect it. But when you've learned to shut off outside influences and believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be.”
Source : Rod Carew (1986). “Rod Carew's Art and Science of Hitting”, Viking Press
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“You can change your life, and you can heal yourself.”
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“If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.”
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“The hardest thing to open is a closed mind.”
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“Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.”
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“Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways”
Source : Foreword to "Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead, 1928.
