Famous Quotes

"Temptation is not to be feared, but controlled."

"Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place."

"Man made God in his own image..."

"In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of people be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved integrity. Do not lose your knowledge that our proper estate is an upright posture,an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it's yours."

"When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... it's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself."

"Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another."

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."

"I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future."

"Dupa ce iti omori demonii, daca ai curajul sa o faci, e musai sa te intorci pe acelasi drum."

"And if you think you're alone. Put on my music. Because I'm going to be there for you."

"Plus there’s the fact,” he went on, making it clear he didn’t need me to reply anyway, “that music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it."

"A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned."

"When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty."

"It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here."

"It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all."

"Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison."

"I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error."

"Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding."

"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."

"Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul."

"Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them."

"Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big"