The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you.

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?

I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.

As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it around my neck. I could wear it to school tomorrow. It could read, I MISS CHARLIE KHAN.

It also makes my father right again. How will I ever soar with the eagles if I'm surrounded by turkeys?

She launched the airplane and it caught a current and circled down toward the town, like a promise of something good.

I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is. Which Zen guy said "If you want to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water"?

--he stopped and eyed Bill Corso--"if you choose to just sit here like a bored jungle gorilla, you will have to write out this quote as many times as you can during the next hour.

I wish for world peace, because it's about as likely to occur anything else I can wish for.

Life is not a race.....not a struggle, & bla bla ....We make it a race, struggle.It's we to decide how should it be. Actually Life is Present & the choices we choose in past.

The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different.

Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.

A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart

Making a movie is trying to capture moments of true reality.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.

It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.

Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.