Famous Quotes

"No man is free who is not master of himself."

"Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch. A demon. Hell, I could fit Oz in my shaving kit, but come a full moon, he had a wolfy mojo not to be messed with. Powerful, all of them. And I'm the guy who fixes the windows. They'll never know how tough it is, Dawnie, to be the one who isn't Chosen, to live so near the spotlight and never step in it. But I know. I see more than anybody realizes because nobody's watching me. I saw you last night, and I see you working here today. You're not special; you're extraordinary."

"I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty."

"Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt."

"We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form."

"Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional."

"There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation."

"I shut my eyes in order to see."

"You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come."

"In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans."

"Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey."

"The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'."

"You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet."

"There are no traffic jams on the extra mile."

"Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward."

"It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone."

"Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death."

"I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free."

"One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change."

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."

"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind--"

"Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.Love is Life, Hatred is Death."