inspiration

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

"I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."

"The thing about growing up with Fred and George,"said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."

"A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use."

"Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information."

"I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness."

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."

"We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary."

"You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps."

"There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart."

"If you want the answer—ask the question."

"Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing"; - "We accept the love we think we deserve,"

"The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration."

"When gangs took over the [abandoned public land in Philadelphia] and the neighborhood took a turn for the worse, horses became a way of saving lives. By getting boys interested in raising a horse rather than killing another human being, these cowboys gave the youth something positive: father figures, focus, and the ability to stand tall."

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

"Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening."

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."

"A family man shouldn't trade his peace for profits, it is the job of a businessman."