You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared

Often things are as bad as they seem.

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10)

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

The world is made of sugar and dirt.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.

Love is the only emotion that expands intelligence

I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.