When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

Brandy says, The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger....

When you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trash can, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

Let me never be complete. Let me never be content. Let me never be perfect.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

Hope, he learned, was sometimes all a person had.

One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.

Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else...

Only fear can defeat life.

It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

You've got to jump off cliffs - and build your wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY

When you move they can't get you 'A'

There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.'

said, looking for a job on Broadway.

You're where you wanted to be, aren't you? So you're taking a few blows. That's the price for being in the arena and not on the sidelines. Stop complaining and be grateful.

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.

And he learned that when Johnson gave an assignment, no excuses were accepted. He used to say, 'I want only can-do people.' That was one of his favorite expressions. 'I only want can-do people around....

If you do everything, you'll win

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never...

It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.

If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.