To become great you have to be good first, and that only occurs by applying yourself. Commit to your passion and refuse to let yourself down.

What are you working towards everyday besides death?

Don't let anyone infiltrate your happiness. Protect it as if it's all you have, because it literally is.

Peace is a flame that can only be ignited from within. Harness positive thoughts and illuminate once again.

Nurture your dreams to fruition, refuse to let the rot in reality.

Hope will get you through the day and love shall carry you through the night. A couple of life's pillars.

Whatever you are pursuing don't stop, or you will forever be wondering how it would've turned out. Even if no one else believes, never give up on yourself.

Don't ever get discouraged, your effort may not be acknowledged but trust me it's noticed.

Where your attention lies is where your life thrives. Shift your focus if you're unsatisfied.

Belief is blind but with patience it too shall become apparent in due time.

Don't open up doors you won't have the strength later to close, be mindful of the acts you enable.

Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there’s the devil to pay.

He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.

At some point reality set in. You realize that you've been holding on to someone or something until you look upon your tightly gripped fist and see nothing is there.

The future of architecture is culture.

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.

I have a room all to myself; it is nature.

If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say.

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.