A vision inspires, aligns, and directs. it says to other people, "here is what I am up to, come and play in my sandbox!

Be the author, not the reader, of your own life.

As life progresses, baggage can accumulate. For a while, things can be swept under the rug, but the wait of unfinished business eventually catches up.

A life is a terrible thing to waste. Reach your potential. Thrive.

Feeling entitled is the opposite of feeling grateful. Gratitude opens the heart, entitlement closes it.

You must dare to make new voyages.

Bessie?” I looked down at the bull serpent. “But… he’s too cute. He couldn’t destroy the world.”-Percy Jackson

As we acquire more knowledge things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Why does it take two days for a polaroid of John Major to appear?

The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.

I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career.

Gandhi, who went to Wendy's and asked, "Where's the belief?" Never got a dinner!