Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Sir Winston Churchill

I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.

Smokey Robinson

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.

Paulo Coelho

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.

Bayazid AlBistami

Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

What a pity we don't pursue the salvation of humans with the same verve we pursue the salvation of animals

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It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.

Anita Ekberg

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

Source Unknown

Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

Anne Frank

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Maya Angelou

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

C.S. Lewis