I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Helen Keller

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Frank Moore Colby

Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have.

Vera Brosgol

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Pau (Pablo) Casals

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. Matthew 6:31

Bible

Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.

Proverb, Indian Proverb

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Henry Miller

Bran thought about it. "Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?" That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him.

George R.R. Martin

He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.

Johann von Goethe

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

Bill Gates

Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.

Source Unknown

Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting---not for the first time---on the peculiarity of adults. Thet took laxatives, liquor, or sleeping pills to drive away their terrors so that sleep would come, and their terrors were so tame and domestic: the job, the money, what the teacher will think if I can't get Jennie nicer clothes, does my wife still love me, who are my friends. They were pallid compared to the fears every child lies cheek and jowl with in his dark bed, with no one to confess to in hope of perfect understanding but another child. There is no group therapy or psychiatry or community social services for the child who must cope with the thing under the bed or in the cellar every night, the thing which leers and capers and threatens just beyond the point where vision will reach. The same lonely battle must be fought night after night and the only cure is the eventual ossification of the imaginary faculties, and this is called adulthood.

Stephen King