Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

Source Unknown

Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.

Melissa de la Cruz

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.

Rabindranath Tagore

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Theodore Roosevelt

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Don Marquis

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!

Paul J. Meyer

You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.

Russell Pearce

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

William Ellery Channing

for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life.

Plato

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.

William Crashaw