All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Albert Ellis

Without consistency there is no moral strength.

Owen

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

William Penn

He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

Stephen King

Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

Daisaku Ikeda

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

William James

Who dares, win

Paulo Coelho

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

Jos

An erotic life is, for more and more people, that which can be captured on digital photographs and on video. And perhaps the torture is more attractive, as something to record, when it has a sexual component.

Susan Sontag

Love, too, was just a question of time

Paulo Coelho

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

Judd Nelson

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

Ann Brashares