It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

Marshall McLuhan

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan, Blues for a Red Plan

I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

Tanith Lee

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. / Nije problem dijete koje se boji mraka; prava tragedija su odrasli koji se boje svjetla.

Plato

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

Emma Goldman

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see.

Leni Riefenstahl

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

Bruce Springsteen

When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

Proverb

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

Stephen Hawking

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

Bruce Oldfield

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Rene Descartes

Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.

Jonathan Sacks