There are many famous sentences in famous works. The following are some of the famous ones: Happy families are all similar, but each unfortunate family is different. - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get. - Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone The secret of success is to never change one's fixed purpose. - John Le Carre, The Kite Runner Don't ask what others have done for you, ask what you have done for yourself. - Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra The most important thing in life is not the road we walk, but the people we pass by. - Hamlet by William shakespeare You can't grow when you can't learn from your mistakes. - The Weakness of Human Nature Life is not to surpass others, but to surpass oneself. - Steve jobs If you want to change the world, change yourself first. - Robert Fisher, A Short History of Everything The value of a person does not lie in how much success he has achieved, but in whether he can sincerely pursue his own happiness. - Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream Life is not about what you did in the past, but what you will do in the future. - Maslow's A Short History of Humanity