Life, Barbra Streisand as Katie Morosky Gardiner from The Way We Were (1973)

Katie Morosky Gardiner: Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were old? We'd have survived all this. Everything thing would be uncomplicated, the way it was when we were young?
Hubbell Gardiner: Katie, it was never uncomplicated.

- Barbra Streisand as Katie Morosky Gardiner from The Way We Were (1973)

Study, Confucius (孔子)

其家不可教，而能教人者，無之。

- 孔子, 大學

不能教育家人者也不可能教育其他人。

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

- Confucius (孔子, 551BC–479BC),The Great Learning (大學)

Finance, Bill Gross

Inflation and deflation in this levered world coexist nearly side-by-side.

- Bill Gross (1944- )

Rose, German Proverb

No rose without a thorn.

- German Proverb

Emotions, Leo Buscaglia

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

- Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

Hero, Iron Man 2 (2010)

[Tony Stark is eating a donut in the giant donut on top of the building]
Nick Fury: Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to exit the donut.

[In the Donut shop]
Tony: I told you I don't want to join your super secret boy band.
Fury: [laughs] No no no, see? I remember, you do everything yourself. How's that working out for ya?
Tony: It-It-It-It's... I'm sorry, I don't want to get off on the wrong foot. Do I look at the patch or the eye? Honestly, I'm a bit hungover. I'm not sure if you're real or... or if I'm having deliriu....
Fury: [interrupts] I am very real. I'm the realest person you're ever gonna meet.
Tony: Just my luck. Where's the staff here? [looks around]
Fury: [pulls down Tony's collar to look at the marks on his neck] That's not looking so good.
Tony: It's been worse.
Agent Natasha Romanov: [walks up to the table] We've secured the perimeter. But I don't think we should hold it for too much longer.
Tony: [learning for the first time Natasha's true identity] Huh... you're... fired.
Natasha: That's not up to you.

- Scarlett Johansson as Natalia Romanova from Iron Man 2 (2010)

Attitude, Xunzi (荀子)

聞之不若見之，見之不若知之、知之不如行之。

- 荀子, 儒效

To hear is not equal to to see. To see is not equal to to know. To know is not equal to to act.

- Xunzi (荀子)