To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

人們試圖用各種聰明又困難的方法來提升生活，而不用最簡單、最容易的方法 – 拒不從事讓生活變壞的行為。People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing – refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing – refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
— Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
人們試圖用各種聰明又困難的方法來提升生活，而不用最簡單、最容易的方法 – 拒不從事讓生活變壞的行為。

– 列夫‧托爾斯泰 (1828-1910) 俄國小說家，哲學家、政治思想家及社會改革者，他著有短篇故事、論文及劇本，也是世界經典名著《戰爭與和平》的作者。

創新需要信念，信念需要我們放棄掌控。Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
– Julia Cameron, Artist
創新需要信念，信念需要我們放棄掌控。

– 茱莉亞．卡麥隆 (1948- ) 美國小說家、詩人、劇作家、作曲家及藝術家，其中《創意，是心靈療癒的旅程》(The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path To Higher Creativity) 。

The best way out is always through.

The best way out is always through.
– Robert Frost, Poet

Temperate, sincere and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.

Temperate, sincere and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

The real happiness doesn’t lie in money or success or fame. Real happiness lies in gratitude. So be grateful. Be alive. And live every moment.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

History teaches, but it has no pupils.

History teaches, but it has no pupils. 
– Antonio Gramsci, Marxist Philosopher

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly… and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly… and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it. 
– Murasaki Shikibu, Novelist

What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.

What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right. 
– Albert Einstein, Physicist

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Philosopher

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. 
- Theodore Roethke, Poet

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly.
– Will Durant, Historian