The art of the novel is to make the reader forget that the writer exists.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. ― George Eliot, Middlemarch

Life is about making an impact, not making an income.

不要着急，最好的总会在最不经意的时候出现。