We all have freedom of choice. Over and over again, minute by minute. How will you live your life? For yourself Or for others? For something good? For love?

I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt.But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.

Fantasizing about an Italian hottie was far better than my normal dreams.

fortes fortuna adiuvat, " Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold.

Once upon a time--which, when you come to think of it, is reallythe only proper way to begin a story--the only way that reallysmacks of romance and fairyland--

I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision.

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

You can change your life, and you can heal yourself.

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.