Famous Quotes

"Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are."

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward."

"When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds."

"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."

"Storms make trees take deeper roots."

"Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs"

"Vote for the man who promises least"

"Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one."

"I don’t want anyone to hold back who they are. It’s not okay… it’s not a good thing"

"As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms."

"Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you."

"If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example."

"To every problem, there is a most simple solution."

"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink."

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

"impossible is not a word"

"After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was."

"Your opinion is not my reality."

"The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him."

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

"Though we tremble before uncertain futuresmay we meet illness, death and adversity with strengthmay we dance in the face of our fears."

"Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. I write because life does not appease my appetites and anger... To become more intimate with myself and you. To discover myself, to preserve myself, to make myself, to achieve self-autonomy. To dispell the myths that I am a mad prophet or a poor suffering soul. To convince myself that I am worthy and that what I have to say is not a pile of shit... Finally I write because I'm scared of writing, but I'm more scared of not writing."