inspiration

"I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference"

"Echo of your thoughts are more important than your actions because that has greater impact on the world."

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

"Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something."

"Live Long and Prosper"

"About writing:The trick is to make sure you love what you've produced--to Believe..in order to convince."

"If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband."

"Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee."

"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder."

"I do not regret one moment of my life."

"It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like Home Improvement? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film."

"So long as fortune is favouring you, your defects will remain covered."

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

"Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days."

"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."

"We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement."

"You teach people how to treat you."

"I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world."

"Cause I am strong and I can prove itAnd I got my dreams to see me throughIt's just a mountain, I can move itAnd with faith enough there's nothing I can't doAnd I can see the light of a clear blue morningAnd I can see the light of brand new dayI can see the light of a clear blue morningAnd everything's gonna be all rightIt's gonna be okay [lyrics from "Light of a Clear Blue Morning"]"

"I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope."