Death does not allow us to postpone all the things we can experience now.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly

Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect".

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.

In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'.

You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.

I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.

There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.

My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.

She was afraid, but she couldn't just sit around waiting for someone to save her. She had to try to save herself, try to figure it out.

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.

When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants.