"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar."

"I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?"

"I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed."

"You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person."

"To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is..... Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it."

"I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love."

"feminism is for everybody"

"Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other."

"kenangan itu cuma hantu di sudut pikir. selama kita diam dan ngga berbuat apa-apa, selamanya dia tetap jadi hantu, ngga akan pernah jadi kenyataan."

"It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind."

"Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg."

"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?"

"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity"

"Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently"

"Is life too short to be taking this shit, or is life too short to be minding it?"

"When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable."

"We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself."

"Music, my rampart and my only one."

"In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway."

"Only children believe they're capable of everything."

"You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are."

"Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear"