Life, Nina Dobrev as Elena from Vampire Diaries

All you can do is be ready for the good, so when it comes, you invite it in. Because you need it. I need it.

- Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert from Vampire Diaries, Pilot [1.1]

Advice, Laozi, Dao De Jing

善行無轍迹，善言無瑕讁；善數不用籌策；善閉無關楗而不可開，善結無繩約而不可解。

- 老子, 道德經

The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or footsteps; the skilful speaker says nothing that can be found fault with or blamed; the skilful reckoner uses no tallies; the skilful closer needs no bolts or bars, while to open what he has shut will be impossible; the skilful binder uses no strings or knots, while to unloose what he has bound will be impossible.

- Laozi, Dao De Jing

Choice, Jessica Alba as Invisible Woman in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Susan Storm: Why are you destroying our planet?
Silver Surfer: I have no choice.

Susan Storm: There’s always a choice.
Silver Surfer: Not always.

- Jessica Alba as Susan Storm, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

Advice, Laozi, Dao De Jing

是以聖人欲上民，必以言下之；欲先民，必以身後之。

- 老子, 道德經

So it is that the sage, wishing to be above men, puts himself by his words below them, and, wishing to be before them, places himself behind them.

- Laozi, Dao De Jing

Hero, Scarlett Johansson as Natalie Rushman from Iron Man 2 (2010)

Natalie Rushman: I need your impression.
Tony Stark: Well, you have a quiet reserve about you...
Natalie: I meant your fingerprint.

- Scarlett Johansson as Natalie Rushman from Iron Man 2 (2010)

Advice, Laozi, Dao De Jing

希言自然，故飄風不終朝，驟雨不終日。

- 老子, 道德經

Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature. A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day.

- Laozi, Dao De Jing

Life, Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert from Vampire Diaries

Dear Diary, I made it through the day. I must have said "I'm fine, thanks" at least 37 times. And I didn't mean it once. But no one noticed. When someone asks "How are you?", they really don't want an answer.

- Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert from Vampire Diaries, Pilot [1.1]