Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?

Miranda July

Moonlight is sculpture.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

Alexander Payne

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.

Shakti Gawain

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

R. I. Fitzhenry

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard P. Feynman

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

Mark Twain

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.

Alexander McCall Smith

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

Eric Hoffer

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Albert Ellis

Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette