"The principle virtue of anyone who made an important invention is curious persistence."
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"My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity."
"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."
"Rockabye Baby, in the treetopDont you know a treetopis no safe place to rock?And who put you up there,and your cradle too?Baby,I think someone down herehas got it in for you!"
"If the sum of living be love's fee,Tremble. You are my one eternity."
"There are no atheists in the foxhole."
"And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you weren't flattered, right? I mean, to have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and self-respect - well, that's trophy enough for any guy's ego, huh?"
"You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?"
"The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream."
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
"In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian."
"In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God's art."
"I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write."
"Please Don't Commemorate Me Just Yet [10w] The living are only commemorated when they're at death's door."
"How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?"
"Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience."
"We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon."
"Your subconscious mind is the universal mind with a universal consciousness."
"It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct."
"Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing."
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