When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.

When life gets tough, just love it a bit harder.

Choose well the people around you, friends and everyone else around you. They can teach you lesson, some people give it like this other give it by the hard way.

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

Modeling gave me a strong discipline of professionalism where you work very long hours.

On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.

Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it.

Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.