inspiration

"A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life."

"life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat."

"The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other."

"It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun"

"Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable."

"Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen."

"Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection."

"Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep."

"I do like the world quite a lot."

"Enjoy every ounce of your life, get high and be sincere to anybody that comes around you."

"Whether you think you're right or you think you're wrong. You're right.""If you think in pictures, write. If you think in words, paint."

"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."

"Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman."

"I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories."

"Don't give up the fight,Stand up for your rights."

"We can not, therefore, reserve as sacred anything that is not truth and yet we cannot turn from things of truth have inspired us in our everyday lives. We must merely embrace both hard and soft truths that must not be avoided. This does not mean we can reserve for ourselves the right to be self-righteous nor call others self-righteous simply because they disagree with us."

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."

"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."

"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."