For if u have positive attitude n creativeness u will always see a graveyard as a beautiful garden...

Dreams have a way of persisting. They just don't come true until you DO what you CAN.

Their courtship unfolded in two settings, a Russian reality overlaid with New York memories

Florence imagined the Hammer and Sickle metallurgical plant to be an enormous brick factory like the ones in New York. But as she approached she saw it was in fact a small city of its own

A Red Riding Hood out of her depths in the woods of socialism

She was arriving at a revelation that the secret to living was simply forgetting

The only way to learn who you are is to leave home.

Breaking your family's heart was the price you paid for rescuing your own.

I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

Diversity creates dimension in the world.

like a soulmate he's your penguin

Our insecurities drive us. Our fears control us. We try to hide the first and deny the second and it is exhausting us.

The end is always the same. That's why what we do does matter. Good or bad, we die. If we bring some light and prosperity into the world, isn't that better than there being less light?

Understanding faith can be like trying to hold onto jello. Just when you think you've got a handful of the stuff, all you really have is the residue all over your sticky hands.

I know whom I have believed.

Achilles absent was Achilles still!

No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He had had a classical education.

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

I will see you tomorrow, if God wills it.