Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" Always choose what goes toward what you want.

What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.

When darkness threatens your world, friends can be beams of sunshine if only you'll let them.

A painless lesson is one without any meaning, one who does not sacrifice anything cannot achieve anything.

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

Passion pushes you to learn more, create more and to create better. Best of all, it's contagious.

I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.