As writers, we should remind ourselves, and each other, that Jane Austen and JK Rowling got rejected by publishers, too.

Whatever your dreams may be, never dismiss them as impossible. Always hope. Always try. You just never know when things will happen.

Doing anything worthwhile will present challenges, but everyone who achieves their goal is an ordinary person who becomes extraordinary.

Truly, great is pride and blindness, so that the blood dripping from the scaffold would be called justice. - Epigraph to the 5'th chapter

An upturned life is righted in the box.

If God adds another day to our life let us receive it gladly.

La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.

There aren't any answers, only choices

I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

What matters is the face you show the world, not the quaking mess behind it.

I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.

The great hope of society is in individual character