I considered not getting up, but recognized the pain of staying down was worse than the pain of attempting to stand.

Courage is just dreams with shoes on.

Make your life a prayer. Live your mediation.

Love is bigger than everything.

Sometimes to move forward, you have to find yourself backwards.

Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word ‘God.’ (125)

Keep faith in your abilities to deal with an uncertain next

Karen had no problem standing up to people. She’d say ‘no’ before the question was even asked.

Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girl's mouth!

The Samurai always has to rise and move on, because new challenges will come.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.

I want to do a little bit of everything. I love sci-fi. I think it's more the characters that draw me towards things. I like strong women. I'm very interested in futuristic stuff, anything.