You are writing a gospel, A chapter each day, By the deeds that you do And the words that you say. Men read what you write, Whether faithful or true: Just what is the gospel According to you? - SOURCE...

One day, I told myself, one brave and magnificent day, I will actually be cool. I

Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the good things will give you strength to endure, she...

Sometimes help comes from unexpected places.

Mimicry reassures the weak, and the envious fool takes the risk as often as the visionary who mocks the error and leaves the man alone.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

For dreams that never die.

No one expects an eighty - five - year - old Navy SEAL stripper. No one. And that was the beauty of George.

Men bow before the power of genius; they hate it, and try to slander it, because genius does not divide the spoil; but if genius persists, they bow before it.

Did I ever tell you that you are like sunshine in the middle of the night?

For me, reading was adventure, but most of all, reading was escape -

Courage is not the absence of fear or despair, but the strength to conquer them.

Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that truly move the world are invisible.

It was a morning for Ella Fitzgerald. There are fine things in the world, after all. Dignity, refinement, warmth and humour, where you'd never expect to find them. Even as an old woman, an amputee in...

It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!

Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking. - Cecilia to Henry Chinaski

You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree, you could be the sun that never leaves the sky, this might be the happy ending without the ending, this might be a reason to try

She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.

From a clearer perspective, I can now see how my presence on that dock that resulted in my brother's rescue was instrumental in giving me the information and the confidence to become a teacher and...

You can believe that you are neither a slave to inspiration nor its master, but something far more interesting - its partner - and that the two of you are working together toward something intriguing...

Pure creativity is magnificent expressly because it is the opposite of everything else in life that's essential or inescapable {food, shelter, medicine, rule of law, social order, community and...

As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

I look up. And I am surrounded by the universe. Silence and stars. A million suns stretch out beyond me, their light piercing the darkness.

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one's life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river...

There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, that is the miracle of genius.

There is a prospect greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

There is no one right way to live.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more...

You were very brave," Nancy said, with the same encouraging indifference