People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him.

I think you should try... not to try to be better than everyone around you, but try to be better than yourself everyday.

A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

I am not the best, but I am capable of achieving the impossible.

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

You must have a dragon hidden inside you. When you need, you let the dragon out.

To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

I don't think I'm better than anyone; I just like to prove to myself that things I imagine can be done.

No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.--Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

Signposts are our intuition asking inner wisdom to be set free.

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to find the task of photographing it difficult.

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.

He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins.

You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are doing it better than you ever could.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Teenagers have a legitimate voice. We deserve to have a seat at the table and a place in the conversation. We're not exempt from politics and social movements; we're affected by them.